the.com/lawlessness
Not the absence of rules, just the absence of anyone enforcing them.
means A state in which laws exist on paper but carry no real force, so people act without legal restraint or consequence.
from Built straightforwardly from 'law' plus the negating suffix '-less' (meaning 'without') plus the noun-forming '-ness.' 'Law' itself traces back to Old English 'lagu,' borrowed from Old Norse 'lag' — literally 'something laid down or fixed,' from the same root as 'lay.' So at its core, lawlessness is simply the state of having nothing properly 'laid down' — or nothing left standing once it is.
- somalia proof
- had working telecom markets with zero state
- etymology
- from old english lah, meaning what is laid down
- common myth
- chaos is loud, real lawlessness is often eerily orderly
- economics term
- rent seeking thrives most where rules exist but bend