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This is such a glaring flaw with the arguments of all free-market fetishists/libertarians. The logical endpoint of completely deregulated capitalist society is, as Nick Hannauer puts it, "a police state or a revolution". People who apparently pride themselves on their commitment to freedom seem really happy with neo-feudal society where we're all in hock to the super-rich through rentier capitalism (this short story is well worth a read on that front). The only reasonable explanation is that they think a vastly unequal society is somehow just, just as long as they're at the top of it. It's at that point we get right into "first-up-against-the-wall" territory.