[PieterCasparzen]

I distrust the government much more than I do markets.

The key questions: is the government an actual honest government of the people ? May help to think on a local level. Do you know your town councilmen personally and very well ? Or are they outsiders you know nothing of ?

Are the markets honest or are they rigged ?

If things are legitimate they work honestly, and the expectation of honesty has a decent change of being met. If things are illegitimate and dishonest, the "system" won't give the desired honest results, but it's really the dishonesty at fault, not the system, per se.

Food for thought.

[BfloGuy]

it's really the dishonesty at fault, not the system, per se

Of course, it is. But a system which separates us by hundreds or thousands of miles from our representatives is one to always be suspicious of.