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There is a large difference between "there are no more 'freebies' where we can make someone better off without hurting someone else" and "we will not allow a change if it hurts anyone at all".
The first is Pareto-efficient, the latter is a horrible idea.
Right, to demand a Pareto-efficient outcome is not to demand that all changes are Pareto-improvements.
PG is right to say that the society he describes is Pareto-efficient and awful, but it's not the only Pareto-efficient society.