The government is protecting 10x as much stuff from the state of nature for you. Also, the job that you have that pays 10x as much wouldn't even exist because there are many more links along the value chain of a high value job than a low value job. The government protects all of those links from theft in many, many ways. Seriously, suck it up -- in Mad Max world, you would be your neighbor's bitch.
This would be a real argument if the government's only function was to protect stuff from the state of nature, if the costs of protecting stuff were linear, and if the only alternative to the current way of doing things was a 'Mad Max world'.
