Buyer, Seller, Cop and Thief; Lawyer, Judge and Bureau Chief.

It has long puzzled me, that civilizations across the globe, no matter how advanced or rudimentary, all seem to invent certain noxious elements of governance. Several possibilities caught my attention. They are:

• Government is somehow divinely inspired, and universally offered to mankind by a higher power, who may not necessarily have our best interests at heart.
• There is some process by which people share the concept of government by trade and interaction, so as to share the best system of self-rule. And this is what we have produced.
• Certain elements in the rise of human civilization tend individually and in each certain instance to give rise to principles common across humanity, which then cause similar methods of governance.
• There is some innate defect of character in the human species which gives rise to Government first among other bad habits.

I suggest below that it is a combination of the latter two elements, which inevitably bring us Government, ant never quite to our benefit.

Sicut ergo propositus sit, let it then be proposed, that the marketplace or souk is a primitive human concept dating back to perhaps the time of early human language; before even money was conceived. That a rudimentary theory of common civilization existed to permit the elements of social intercourse.

Found: That the rise of government is an inevitable and detrimental process from the perspective of the marketplace - the source of prosperity.

Demonstrated:

1. Seller. A person who has item(s) of value, with which he wishes to part in order to attain other items more desired.
2. Buyer. A person who desires certain items of value, which he will obtain by exchange of other items. (Note here that in a barter economy, the buyer and seller are not clearly delineated, without the use of money equivalents.)
3. Thief. A thief is an individual who also wishes to obtain items of value by releasing things of less value - but at the extreme. A thief includes those who will abstract things of value, paying nothing for them, from a party in the marketplace. A thief may also include those who will bring items altered to appear as though they have more value than they do; adulterated items or forgeries. A thief is motivated by the same things as Buyer and Seller; however, the thief transgresses an unwritten Rule of the Marketplace, without which it will collapse into tumult. As the desire to obtain much with little effort is innate to human character, so is the idea of crime foreordained.
   
4. Police. This, the first agent of Government, is created by payment of Buyer and Seller, in order to thwart the deleterious effects of Thief.
5. Lawyer. A second noxious profession, but a private one, engaged to impede the first conspiratorial crime, that of collusion. The Police and Thief discover that, no matter how strongly they oppose each other at first, cooperation will yield fruit to both at the expense of the market. The Thief may go about his activities without fear of severe beating or death; the Police, no matter how well paid, will supplement their income from the Thief's bounty. Since the unwritten Rule of the Marketplace is transgressed, there must be ones who can publish certain rules which will be considered necessary to obey. The Lawyer arises synchronously with the
6. Judge. This individual - another who, it goes without saying, derives his sustenance indirectly from the Marketplace through the invention of taxation, since the simple employment of the Police is now a broader function than merely contract. Lord Judge is the first formal State Employee. Sellers, Buyers, Police and Thieves may all combine in various ways, by excluding one or another party, to enrich themselves by greed, but also by transgressing the Rules. There must be an objective Arbiter of the Rules, who may take over the role of Lawgiver, to oversee the action of the parties, and hear the arguments of the various Lawyers employed by the individual parties feeling wrong.
   
7. Bureau Chief. This individual is the first Government Functionary, besides the co-invented Tax Collector, who needs not be mentioned but arises spontaneously with Goverment. The title is arbitrary; the function is ubiquitous. The Bureau Chief is necessary for the inevitable ramification of Law, which breeds like rabbits, to cover every condition of human malfeasance discovered by the Judge in Court. Certain laws must be harshly enforced and others neglected. This decision is too weighty for one judge or another. One may be harsh by nature, another overly compassionate. A Bureau is needed for the recitation of punishments for crimes not yet committed. From the Chieftan comes the King; and from the king comes tyranny.
   

It goes now without saying that Government is off and running. A system of taxing the marketplace is in place, and a self-sustaining and eternally self-justifying bureaucracy.

All that is needed now is the invention of Black Markets; some of them are criminally-derived, such as a Thieves' Market; others arise spontaneously, as between Buyer and Seller who are indignant over the parasites upon their good business. The final function of Government is to extinguish Black Marketeering as powerfully as possible, making no distinction between unauthorized Free Enterprise, and Thievery; but rather to equate the two.

That brings us nicely to the present model of Governance. QED.