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Note that customer satisfaction != customer well being (i.e. heroin)

The heroin users believe it is in their best interests.

That's my point. It doesn't necessarily mean it is in their best interest - the free market doesn't optimize for people's best interests, it optimizes for people's perception of their best interest (which is usually fine but it's not always the same thing)

Do you think it is better for the government to decide what's in your best interests?

No. I'm just pointing out that the free-market isn't perfect. I think we should be open to improvement.

Let me ask you something: do you think this is how we're going to run things for the rest of time? Feudalism came and went, mercantilism came and went. Probably we'll come up with something better than what we have now, some day. I admit it's hard to imagine what, though

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