If your state concept is broad enough to entail any organization of a certain size, be my gast in a council republic

It’s somewhere along the lines of “any organization that handles the administrative work and protection for a given territory”.

And I don’t think that’s all that broad of a definition, and it includes your world wide net of councils as a state.

Importantly, you didn’t answer the second question:

What would prevent centralization of power?

That’s state welfare/insurance, not socialism.

Shit that’s all you had to say

Unfortunately I quite prefer my mind being the only one I can hear.

How is that different from a state, aside from the decentralization of power?

What would prevent centralization of power?

I code using a telegraph machine in morse code.

Yeah kinda hard to do so when a world power decides to end your country.

How would society handle critical functions such as water sanitation for millions of people without a state to enforce equitable share of the cost?

You made a lot of claims here. Do you have any sources to provide support?

Competition does the exact opposite of centralization. That’s why I can buy most goods from completely different vendors that differ in price and quality.

Competitions have winners, and in this case it means the competition goes out of business and dies, leaving you with a near monopoly or outright monopoly.

That power then gets used to

• lobby (bribe) the government to raise barriers to entry to prevent new competitors
• buy out new competitors
• intentionally price everything lower than competitors, at a loss, to kill competitors in a war of attrition that they can’t possibly outlast

And that’s even assuming there’s any competition at all, which often isn’t the case with certain things like healthcare, internet, electricity, etc.