>>713132970Cutting down all the trees in the woods to sell for firewood would be very profitable, too. Think of how much money could be made .
But it would also make your life very shitty to live if there were no more trees. Everything would be a desert, it would barely rain, wind would destroy all topsoil, and there would finally be no food.
Sometimes, you need a man with a very big gun to point it at the robber baron and say "You're going to make sure everyone has a good life here, or else".
Not all of the time, but for things like making a big hole in the sky that gives everyone cancer, changing the world so everyone is buffeted by hurricanes, or forcing peasants to scour through garbage and waste for food- Those are the things you need the man with the gun to fix.
The free market only counts when the man with the gun is keeping it free.