Why do some people believe that a mixed economic system solves basic economic problems?
Government bodies are an amazingly consistent display of their failure to utilize resources efficiently. In fact because they do not face monetary profit or loss, they have no idea if what they are doing is efficient. Questions such as what is an acceptable time for people to wait for medical treatment are unable to be answered efficiently by government, and people suffer for their failures. Extreme examples include North Korea when compared to South Korea – there is no difference between the two countries except for the choice of South Korea to all more freedoms to their people. Governments create propaganda of ‘market failures’ which typically can only be defined as the price being higher than in the past, so they can ‘intervene’ to be able to provide an excuse for their existence, and to gain power at the expense of individuals. Societies that have greater government interventions such as regulations, subsidies, taxes, etc, are much worse off economically than those with less interv
