Perfectly encapsulates the flaw in libertarian / economic thinking. "You can just incentivize the return of carts by creating a $1 deposit" Returning carts isn't the point - the type of society that cart returners build is. Cart return is just one example that can be remedied. https://twitter.com/BJORKANDBEANS/status/1261071221795454978 …
Yep; crime is a direct harm but also a proxy for a nebulous measure of overall social health and even if you "solve" the problem by improving all the specific metrics you don't get at the core of the issue.