0 sats \ 1 reply \ @TomK OP 29 Jul \ parent \ on: How The EU Creates The Welfare Entrepreneur econ
yes thanks for your answer. but of course the free market is the natural state in which self-interested, free individuals express their preferences. You need to do more of your own ethical research at this point to understand that.
but there's a problem, it's not a natural state, it's a system which can only exist if some individuals are restrained from impulses to oppress, steal or cheat others. Sometimes we also need to restrain ourselves since a third-party could be harmed by a transaction that could be beneficial for both of us. That third-party could be someone still not being born.
Since we are also affected by unnatural regimes, most of us don't come to the world being able to appreciate the benefits of liberty, and easily fall again in the hands of tyrants instead of choosing the path of freedom. I argue that's the case of Russia after the Soviet Union.