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Landsburg makes the usual free market mistake: that the rules of the sandpit apply in the rest of society.
Assuming that the carefully constructed rules in what is essentially a hothouse nurtured by society to feed that society can then be used to subvert and destroy the social contract of the society itself is what did my country so much damage in the late eighties and early nineties.
Result? Massive social upheaval, racial tension, intense poverty within low socio-economic groups, increased crime and most especially a 'lost generation' of the children of the poor. No education, malnourished with poor health statistics, violent and with no empathy with the society that created them, they'll be a 'cost' to us for the rest of their lives.
Personally I think the idealogues who broke our social contracts, primarily Roger Douglas, Richard Preeble, Mark Cahill, Jenny Shipley and Ruth Richardson, should be standing trial for treason.
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