> The market did all those things; acts characterized as government are services traded on the market. We live in a world dominated by trade, everything has a

> The market did all those things; acts characterized as government are services traded on the market. We live in a world dominated by trade, everything has a price and an index. But here you're saying that the chicken came before the egg rather than viceversa. I wouldn't be so sure. The point I'm making is that there is the market, and there is the government. The one that has the power to affect the other is the government itself, with its laws and tariffs and monopoly over violence. The result is some kind of symbiosis, of course, but everything started in the king's court, not the other way around. Blaming the market for the ills of our world is like blaming the Internet for the existence of revenge porn. Both money and the internet are simply a technology to exchange information and some form of energy, and if it didn't exist, people would invent it (see black markets)