Interesting.
O ye, of little faith.
While I share many of your concerns and have no doubt of the messy nature of free markets, there is no other viable solution.
It’s either “Top Down” or “Bottom up”.
Top down restricts the individual to the benefit of what has been established. Bottom up, allows for substantially more choices.
Now, if we think people are too stupid to make their own decisions in their lives when you consider how utterly ignorant our culture has become?, well I digress.
Messy. Yes.
The market is a way of efficiently allocating scarce resources.
What happens to it when resources are no longer scarce?
I’m a huge fan of the free market, I just am unsure that it will continue to be a friend of mankind. Although I’m pretty sure it will be, for at least the near future, better than the statist alternative.
I just worry that the free market will kill itself and leave us with nothing but the statist alternative.