if taxation is only possible because of a "monopoly on violence" and the monopoly on violence is only possible because of standing armies and standing armies are essentially impossible to employ because they are a too expensive then the monopoly on violence dissapears and there is "distributed violence" where anyone with resources can hire a private security force
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Thanks for elaborating! Yes, and these private armies will then establish spheres of influence, and proceed with taxation in their spheres of influence where they will have monopoly on violence.
We’ve been there, it’s called feudalism.
why would they hold a monopoly on violence? they would make manufacturing of weapons worldwide illegal?
No of course. Just because they’d be stronger within their domain. A peasant in the Middle Ages could stab a knight with a pitchfork, the other knights would come after him, kill him, rape his wife, and sell his kids.
That’s how it always plays out when you have armed groups of people around. Someone always ends up holding the monopoly on violence within some area/domain.