Subject: Re: Celebrating 250 Years in America
One need not be in thrall to free-market fundamentalism to acknowledge that this system, despite its flaws, seems to work very much better than all the alternatives that have been attempted.

Many people, and much research, would disagree with the assertion that free-market fundamentalism "works very much better than" the alternatives found in every advanced economy in the world today, including the U.S. The disagreement is about the extent to which free markets require governmental regulation in order to protect against inevitable prisoners-dilemmas in which the aggregation of individual self-interested actions results in systemic catastrophes.

Or as they say, two novels that can change a 14-year old’s life are The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy. The other involves heroic hobbits and evil orcs.