See, this is the libertarian problem. You can say they'd be better off if the government did nothing but that's a theory, pure idealism. It's never happened in history. There are a couple of implications from that:
It might be even worse than govt intervention. We can only guess.
It doesn't really matter whether it would be better or worse - and this is the more important point - because there is no sequence of events in which the government would not intervene, in the real world.
See, this is the libertarian problem. You can say they'd be better off if the government did nothing but that's a theory, pure idealism. It's never happened in history. There are a couple of implications from that:
It might be even worse than govt intervention. We can only guess.
It doesn't really matter whether it would be better or worse - and this is the more important point - because there is no sequence of events in which the government would not intervene, in the real world.
In the world as it stands today, you are correct and that's a huge problem with the world.
That's the world as it's always stood, from the feudal era to the present.
No, it's not how the world has always stood.
OK. When has this not been the case?