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LOL. It's not clear at all.
even the brilliant conservative economist ( I know ,redundancy) like Sowel, De Rugy and Epstein don't argue for no government.It's a strawman. What they the do argue is fro domincance of the free market over cnetral planning and big government, which of course always is the best way . Airheaded liberal lerrrrrve to point out the 'failures' of capitalism, but ignore the far more pervasive failures of Big Government.
You do know this liberation utopia existed in America at one time, right? During that time, monopolies were formed, entire family (children included) were in many ways forced to work in oppressive conditions or risk starvation, rotten meat was sold as good, poisoned water was all many had to drink is cities that smelled of ****, etc.
The only people that were good were the rich. Everyone else suffered.
Wanna know what changed this free market utopia? Government. A government that put a leash around the necks of the market and reigned in their madness.
So when I hear people gush over the free market, I find myself wishing we have a better school system.