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Loki : The problem remains: How do you reliably sort those who are well meaning from those who aren't? Who decides who is well meaning? Who decides who decides who is well meaning? The capitalist answer is that there is no reliable way, and even if there were, the well meaning people still could not adequately provide good and services through a monopoly because of lack of information about the complexity of the economy. Instead, firms should peacefully compete to provide goods and services, and then their success can be measured by comparison. Further, the capitalist would argue that monolithic power structures on average attract people who are not well meaning.
The economy is an organic by-product. It has no purpose other than the provision of the desires of the organisms that make it up. The unit of purpose resides at the individual level... no one truly knows what is best for you. The statist fallacy is that the economy exists for the purposes of some imagined abstraction "the good of the many," "the collective," "the volk." These entities do not actually have needs because they do not actually exist as self-perceiving organisms.