The market didn't go to war; the government did.
The market didn't put billions in some politician friend's pocket; the government did.
The market didn't put people in jail because the system has failed them; the government did.
The market didn't decide that drugs are bad while financing the very drug lords in tropical countries that are dealing in our streets; the government did.
The market didn't pass a law to permit themselves to skirt the law. They asked, but the government signed.
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What you call the market is the combination of economics and politics. But the market itself, the free trade among people, is a neutral party and a chaotic self-driven mechanism. But if someone has the power to dictate what is a valid trade and what is not, to put tariffs on A and not on B, the market stops being a neutral chaotic equilibrium and instead tends to accumulate money on one side rather than the other.
Because in the smaller scope, where government action is not as heavy handed, the market works beautifully. Every shop in my high street thrives and dies the same way: good products = profit. Bad products = death, and get replaced by someone better.
That is, until someone that got huge thanks to government action (i.e. favour and corruption) can just destroy this equilibrium by opening a Walmart causing every shop to die.
What you call the market, almost as a slur, is the same mechanism we have had for thousands of years. Monopoly, exploitation of labour, squeezing money from the poor to make the rich even richer is governmental action. You don't become a trillion dollar company without many good friends in the palace. Nor it is the "division of labour" that money and trade enable that made the trillion dollar company.
The market is the convenient scapegoat for the thieves running the show.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_anarchism
> The unstated suggestion here seems to be that the government is not already THE (and best) system of control.
There are many form of government. Which form do you speak of? We must've lost so many idealists and visionaries in the past 150 years, that we have stopped dreaming a better, fairer world for everybody, and just decided that this is the best we can do. Maybe voting for the other colour next time will help, who knows. Whatever can one do?