A point from Ostrom's book: A free market is a public good Freeness of a market is an artificial thing that needs to be actively enforced. If you let people do what they like (laissez-faire) they'll tend to do things like forming cartels, that stop the market being free
Great if you can find angels outside and above the Game to "regulate". But if instead of a God-chosen Master Race, your game rules just endow mere humans with a right to unaccountable violence, you'll just select for a ruling class made of the most ruthless sociopaths.
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