This is the first thing that occurred to me when I heard about them a couple days ago. They may think they have discovered a utopia, but what do they do after they have something worth stealing and pirates show up?
You need the imperative and accusative: "Romani ite domum". Now write it 100 times.
What if the government forced us all to buy BigMacs every day under threat of jail time? Some people would certainly be happy that they are being fed “for free” (deducted prepay for two weeks of government bigmacs from each paycheck + convenience fee + online payment fee + tax), but you might not. Further, this is also assuming government finds the most effective solutions at the lowest cost. Usually they just do the latter to meet the absolute bare minimum. There’s no way for government services to be zero cost, so they assign their own overhead.
So now we have a Department of Burgers in every state. Everyone has to buy them every day, if you dont you go to prison, you cant see the cost breakdown of the bigmacs and the quality is inferior to private BigMacs. Some people who love bigmacs and would buy them anyways say “I am glad the government forced me to pay for them. Thats a lot of the job!”, and those who would never buy them find negative value from such a proposal.
What I’m trying to say is that even if you anecdotally agree, it does not make it right.
*or, uh, "security contractors"
Simply put, a non-nation-state can't bring the resources to bear to fight against a nation state. They're just gonna get rolled.
What do ships do now? Are you aware that ships travel in international waters all of the time, and they don't ever have to worry about pirates? This just isn't a real concern.
I doubt that anyone sailing in the Pacific ocean has to worry about this stuff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy_in_the_21st_century
In general, you see piracy where it's profitable (i.e. on valuable commerce routes), and where the local governments are not particularly good at fighting it, either because they're weak, or because they're corrupt, or both. Sometimes, because they're too busy fighting each other - piracy generally ticks up during major wars.
As someone who was trained as a merchant ship's officer and specifically, on how to react to pirates, that simply being in international waters is "protection" is certainly news to me!
If I am in the Pacific ocean, sailing in my personal boat, I'm don't have to be worried about being literally attacked.
People do this all the time, and do not get attacked.
Yeah, if you enter a literal war zone, you might have to worry about that. But that is not most of the ocean.
Most of the ships in the ocean do not have to worry about literal pirates.