governments do produce added consume value in the form of conflict resolution initiation.
I respectfully disagree. The conflicts would have been there with or without the government, their role is to attempt to mitigate the negative consequences of those conflicts.
I am saying that the government is the source of more conflicts and violations of property rights than any private conflicts the government pretends to intermediate.
ie: in the case of a single conflict where person A steals something from person B... government will attempt to resolve that conflict by introducing a conflict between itself and every other member of society to collect taxes at gun point to pay for the legal system and jails. Governments kill more people than private criminals by several orders of magnitude.
So on a net: governments create more conflict than they resolve.
That is how it is now but there really never has been a time in history when there wasn't governments. Families were governments back before we had states and there were conflicts within and between families too.
It's just that today governments in the form we are accustomed to tend to have the best weapons. If we are talking about Mexico or of places in Africa then a lot of people in those countries would prefer a stronger centralized government to the cartels and warlords. It really depends on what the alternative is at the time and in our case because our government has wiped out most of the gangs, organized criminals, terrorists and those who would create "scary" alternative forms of government that we can make the statement that for everything else our government is inefficient.
I'll agree with you that for a lot of things our government is inefficient. War and law enforcement are two areas where our government is among the most efficient in the world though. For a majority of Americans the paternal authoritarian mindset is war and law enforcement are services which protect their commercial interests or physical security. Most people don't want to learn to shoot a gun, go to war themselves, protect the borders, or fight crime, so they pay the government to handle "nuisances" on their behalf.
I'm not saying I agree with that mindset but that is the mindset that most people seem to have.