The existence or nonexistence of outsourcing won't change the fact that people do not always make the optimal economic decisions. The fear of some economic agen

The existence or nonexistence of outsourcing won't change the fact that people do not always make the optimal economic decisions. The fear of some economic agent making a suboptimal decision is a pretty poor reason to argue against anything, unless there's something intrinsic to the economic good in question that inspires suboptimal decisions (drugs, gambling). In fact, when it comes to drugs, I bet the majority of people people on this website would support legalization of at least some drugs, and allow people to make their own bad decisions. But we're still poisoned with the notion that companies in market economies in general have to be prevented from making sub-optimal decisions. Why? Why do people still think this?