Slave owners who died before they got to read Adam Smith and who had no concept of a "Free Market" are not expert economists. Think about how much insanity the

Slave owners who died before they got to read Adam Smith and who had no concept of a "Free Market" are not expert economists. Think about how much insanity the world has seen since their days. We have developed institutions to mitigate that insanity. If a nuclear war ever sets us back technologically 300 years, then I'll start to take the founding fathers ideas seriously again.