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Anarchy sounds cool until you realize billionaires would just own the militias and now we're right back to an oligarchy.
If it’s real anarchy, there can’t be billionaires. One of the central tenets that almost all anarchists agree upon is that capitalism and the state support one another, and so both need to be demolished simultaneously. Destroying one while preserving the other will, as you point out, lead right back to the old system. We see the similar but inverse situation in Russia and China, where attempts to destroy capitalism with a strong state also lead back to oligarchy.
You might be thinking of ancapism, which is widely rejected by most anarchists and not considered to be a real part of the movement.
So in an anarchist society, how do people settle disputes? There can't be a law without some form of governing body to enforce the law. Seems like a might makes right would bubble right back up to the top.
Just leave that to your friendly local warlord to settle.