[abecedarius]

Saying there's an ubiquitous failure of a certain approach to a problem doesn't mean "give up". I think it means you should step back, question your assumptions, think more broadly. A nice example of people doing that: https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Markets-Uprooting-Capitalism-... (not to endorse their specific policy proposals, necessarily).

[asdfman123]

Got it. That’s not cynicism, but saying “all progress must stop until my favorite solution is implemented.”

Centralized authorities are even less accountable to private interests.