Corporations or the State?

An illustration as why the state is more dangerous than companies and corporations. Some people decide to compete with the state by producing their own currency, so the state breaks their down down and shuts them down by force. They where not trying to copy the state's currency but creating one of their own with each coin made of a pure metal rather than the debased stuff found in state issue ones.

In a free market the two could have competed for customers and so found what the customers wanted in their currency. However the state is lazy, it does not like to have to compete and because of it's monopoly on violence it does not have to. Private companies might want to be able to use force rather to shut down their competitors rather than having to out compete them at the market, but it is only when they buy a politician and so get access to the power of the state that they actually can. This is why the state is more dangerous than any company or corporation, businesses have to persuade you to do anything but the state can just put a gun to your head.