He lacked nothing because other people produced everything for him. If you want to live in a barrel, first you need a barrel, meaning you need a safe place to assemble it, and a way to source wood and tools, and then you need it to be protected from other people who want it, and before you know it you've got a whole functioning state with a shared identity and a legal system, and guys with beards are running around plucking chickens and criticizing you for wanting rules.