But what if you don't know them? Shouldn't somebody tell you?
You are being fascist.
Me? A state-worshiper? A member of a pagan, völkisch blood-and-soil cult? Not a chance. I'm a monarchist.
By all means underwrite an airline venture offering all-first-class service and see if it, ahem, takes off.
I'll need any army of lawyers and lobbyists to convince the Powers That Be to rig the game in my favor.
If people don’t want something bad enough to buy it when the market offers it to them, then they shouldn’t have it forced upon them.
Why not? Where is that eternal principle engraved in stone?
Fact: Most people don't know what they want. They are not intellectually equipped to discover their best interests via reason. Instead, they "want" what Lady Gaga or Oprah or Al Gore tell them they want. And, therefore, since someone is going to be telling the average Joe what he wants in any case, who better than an educated, Christian elite with a sense of noblesse oblige? That system worked great for 1800 years. It could work again.
Maybe, tell us more.
You? Yes, you. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
The “unwashed masses” being told what’s best for them by your “educated Christian elite” lead to today where the unwashed masses are told what’s best for them by the ruling class leftists. They’re the same sort of people in different clothes.
You might be right that most people are too stupid to know what’s best for them. However, any system that patronizes and takes care of them will try to patronize and take care of me. And I don’t like that idea at all. I’d rather have idiot people running around being idiotic, and freedom to live the way I want, than a well-tended utopia where I’m a slave. Thanks anyway.