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by amiga_500 2359 days ago
Because laissez-faire economics doesn't converge automagically on the best path.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1993/12/how-the...

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Correct. I'd add that I don't think anyone worth listening to has ever really thought this to be true: rather, it is convenient for those with the majority of private capital for everyone to believe it is true so that they don't have to account for how they spend their money.
There are countless journalists and academics in the UK who believe this as surely as they believe the sun will rise tomorrow.
Touché. (Though lets be clear it's profitable for the individual in those situations to tow the line.)