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Not when you change the will of the people to go against their own interest so that you can make a profit.

So who should decide when the people are too dumb to know what are their own interests and their own will?

It's the job of the government - to protect the common interest of the society that gives it the power. "People [being] too dumb to know what are their own interests" is pretty much a definition of the term "coordination problems", and humans form governments precisely in order to solve those.

>It's the job of the government

In a democracy the government's job is to do what the people want. Claiming it's the job of the government to prevent people from making decisions is antithetical to that.

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