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What you wrote is not new.
It was written and critiqued for a long time both in Western and Eastern philosophies of statecraft.
See Thomas Hobbes' Laviethan and the Chinese mandate of heaven:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_(Hobbes_book)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate_of_Heaven
Vigilantism encompases all non state violence, both organised and anarchy. It includes (un)organised political terrorism (Luigi Mangione) and personal vendettas. You make no distinction between the two in your response.
This is why I agree with the first sentence. To say that all vigilante violence leads to poorer conditions for the poor is wrong. People can agree with a subset of non-state violence and disagree with another subset.