And then I basically just added that the business is required to be run well (in order to stay open) while the government can falter and fail without significant recourse. He has now been converted I was trying to explain anarchism to a close friend and he said this. I figured that was pretty simple for statists to understand.
Make your friend read this. Last year when I was a Constitutionalist/Minarchist, my friend sent that to me, and halfway through I was beginning to question my beliefs. By the end, I was converted. Rothbard has that effect on people, it's magical.