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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (546081)1/25/2010 9:03:33 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (4) of 1575341
 
there are a whole group of people who not only benefit from the free markets but are hurt by them.

With totally unfree markets even the poor would be much worse off. Free markets in general help almost everyone. Including (to the extent government is being helpful) providing the funds for government to live off of.

Specific actions within the free market will of course cause both harm and good, but on the balance government attempts to deal with these specific acts tend to cause more harm than good. If the government narrowly focuses on, and limits itself to the very best cases for possible government intervention, than perhaps there is a decent chance that the intervention does some good, but as government intervention continues to expand to a greater and greater extent, additional interventions become less and less likely to be helpful, and also become more likely to be justified by conditions that where to a large extent created by previous government interventions.
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