Why do you think the market is providing people the products they want? This may be self-evident for you; it isn't for me. Markets are useful, but they don't wo

Why do you think the market is providing people the products they want? This may be self-evident for you; it isn't for me. Markets are useful, but they don't work well. People want to be forced to spend an extra buck for guaranteed free returns and another extra buck for minimum warranties, and maybe another buck for 7 year of updates. They also want the resulting costs to be distributed amongst everyone, which makes them trivial. This isn't a particularly unusual idea in a continent that has tended to embrace socialized healthcare. A big enough majority of people wants it, anyway, to vote for representatives that write these laws. I'm sure there is a small minority of oppressed Randians who suffer terribly from all of this.