IMO every statist, if he's being honest w/himself, must admit a few things:
He spends from his entire childhood to early adulthood in a state-run/controlled school system which inculcates in him as strong a belief in statism as spending 12 years in a fanatical religious school system would inculcate a strong and irrational belief in whatever god/religion this system taught him to worship.
He lives in a society which reinforces his irrational belief system, since the vast majority of people have also been indoctrinated in statism and because every center of power/influence also reinforces statism (just like people in a church/religion all reinforce their own collective irrationality/insanity).
He gets to participate in the political ritual of voting which gives the illusion that his choice matters or that he is in control--when in fact it does NOT change the fact that someone else has the power to make decisions FOR him, against his will and wishes if necessary. IMO there is a good deal of Stockholm Syndrome at work here as well, because to admit the truth about the system would be to reject a system that the statist has had deeply ingrained in his pysche as well as admitting that he is, in fact, NOT free.
Letting the slaves vote for new figurehead 'representatives' every so often was an evil-genius move on the part of the masters...forcing the slave children into schools run by the slave-masters was even more brilliant..."slavery is freedom"...
I'm not a statist. But I'm not rich enough to survive in an individualist anarchy.
Not sure what being rich has to do w/surviving in a world w/o rulers...living in a state doesn't guarantee survival either (ask the Iraqis and Libyans) and most anarchists have nothing against VOLUNTARY collectives (they are natural and beneficial), we just don't think there should be one set of rules (i.e., no rules) for a ruling class and another for a ruled class.