I'd rather speak in terms like "I don't want to buy a car that has a 10% chance of spontaneously exploding and killing all passengers" or "I don't want to take a vaccination that makes me feel so sick I have to take a week off work".
Both those things happen under our current less-than-free market system. The current system of government interference actively protects incompetence, especially in the later example. Pharma is completely captured, and can get away with anything, mostly due to government forces, not market forces.
My argument was never 'free market great/perfect,' it was 'free market better than the current shitshow.'
Both those things happen under our current less-than-free market system
I hope the car thing doesn't, but you're right. I'd even go so far as to say it's more likely to occur under our current system. But that's an "implementation detail" problem that only matters once you've established a thing is desirable enough it's worth implementing.
Still, if they did happen under a "free market" I'd like some ability to solve those problems as they occur. Right now we can't, because there are some people on the right (I don't think you) who can't look past the reality they might have to interfere with the "free market".
So the left wins be default, because they're the only side offering to fix these problems; and the only way they know how to fix something is massive government bureaucracies.
Both those things happen under our current less-than-free market system. The current system of government interference actively protects incompetence, especially in the later example. Pharma is completely captured, and can get away with anything, mostly due to government forces, not market forces.
My argument was never 'free market great/perfect,' it was 'free market better than the current shitshow.'
Pharma is captured because bribery is legal.
I hope the car thing doesn't, but you're right. I'd even go so far as to say it's more likely to occur under our current system. But that's an "implementation detail" problem that only matters once you've established a thing is desirable enough it's worth implementing.
Still, if they did happen under a "free market" I'd like some ability to solve those problems as they occur. Right now we can't, because there are some people on the right (I don't think you) who can't look past the reality they might have to interfere with the "free market".
So the left wins be default, because they're the only side offering to fix these problems; and the only way they know how to fix something is massive government bureaucracies.
They aren't "fixing" the problems. The problems are unfixable. They're just selling snake oil to gullible idiots.