even from radical libertarians I have never understood why having my rights denied, trampled upon and generally treated as nonexistent is considered a great ev

even from radical libertarians I have never understood why having my rights denied, trampled upon and generally treated as nonexistent is considered a great evil when done by "government", but a great and necessary moral victory when done by "the free market". I also do not understand how anyone can look at, say, the first few stages of the industrial revolution -- when, for example, in the United States any attempt to protect the innate rights of workers was viciously struck down in service to the great "freedom" of contract -- and believe that markets will solve problems on their own, or that government has no place beyond a bare minimum of defense of property. But then, people also don't read Thomas Hobbes anymore, because even though he was right about the state-of-nature thought experiment, his ideas on its consequences are no longer fashionable.