SoullessAutomaton comments on Open Thread: May 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SoullessAutomaton 01 May 2009 10:02:28PM 2 points [-]

Of course not.

However, the typical libertarian response is roughly "move closer to a free market", which does not necessarily give better results from all starting points. In the case of a market that is by its nature far from a perfectly competitive one, that's been heavily distorted by previous government interference, has several entrenched players, &c., there's every reason to believe that naively reducing regulation will lead toward a local minimum.