IMO, most people don’t think long-term enough for market forces to be sufficient to solve lifestyle or resource allocation problems.
Unhealthy foods, bad television, alcohol abuse, water rights, sportsball conspiracies, downvote retribution—really any personal choice that can be made wrongly by a weak-willed mortal meatsack—are going to require violent (hopefully abstracted and implied violence via government, rather than direct violence in most cases) intervention to solve.
IMO, most people don’t think long-term enough for market forces to be sufficient to solve lifestyle or resource allocation problems.
Unhealthy foods, bad television, alcohol abuse, water rights, sportsball conspiracies, downvote retribution—really any personal choice that can be made wrongly by a weak-willed mortal meatsack—are going to require violent (hopefully abstracted and implied violence via government, rather than direct violence in most cases) intervention to solve.