So you're a "the free market will take care of all the things!" thinker, then?
EDIT: I wasn't the one who posted the "Living in a society requires structure" comment.
EDIT: I wasn't the one who posted the "Living in a society requires structure" comment.
And efficient small government will be a moonshot.
Its confusing how you can argue against monopolies but support the the biggest monopoly of all... the government.
ANY fair system is completely impossible just by the nature of human beings.
There is no world and no system which unfairness does not exist.
However, a free market at least doesnt put all the power and control into the hands of a singular monopolistic entity that can use violence as an option.
Yeah, I used to believe that, because it was such a neat theory and Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged seemed so right. (I was a teenager.) Life has convinced me otherwise. There's a sweet spot (which probably moves over time), but free-market absolutists aren't being realistic, largely for the reasons mentioned by 'defrost in response to you.
(NY Times lead economics writer Binyamin Appelbaum got it right in his book The Economists' Hour when he said, of Milton Friedman, that Friedman celebrated drivers but took roads for granted.)
Anec-data
you make a lot of claims without a lot of evidence.
A single monopolistic entity that can use violence to accomplish it's means is no way to run a country.
Wait, are you not the one making sweeping claims about small government and the free market?
I'd love to spend several days with you discussing what has caused me to evolve from pretty-conservative and -libertarian Republican in my younger days, to moderate liberal today. Unfortunately, I'm heads-down with, um, work, so I'll have to take a rain check.