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bucky1
That sounds great, but why have leaders at all? Why not trust the population to live on their own?
Humans aren't wired that way, more's the pity.
I agree with you that government is an evil. but it is a necessary evil. Necessary in that if your group doesn't have it and the group over the next hill does, there is an excellent chance the group over the next hill will use their government to make war on your group and you will shortly become part of their group (possibly as a a slave or worse).
You might recall the opening sequence in "2001, A Space Odyssey".
In the most basic ways we haven't changed much since the jawbone of an ass was the latest thing in high tech weaponry.