I’m not one who believes that the free operation of the laws of economics are the vehicle to a human utopia. I think that this would more likely lead to a planet Earth that resembled the DeathStar–completely economically developed to the last little profit. If a minimum wage slows the “progress” of turning the planet into an asphalt-covered strip mall, subsidizing work instead of slothfulness and dependency (welfare), then I can live with the inconvenience to CEO’s and their stockholders. My sense of moral value ultimately outweighs my hunger for economic liberty and prosperity, which I believe is empty absent moral values. My vision of a perfect society isn’t one that is so economically prosperous that no morality, through voluntary, responsible limiting of family sizes, or basic mutual appreciation is ever entertained, until it’s too late.
So you say that there has to be something else to maintain the morality of society and individuals except their personal preferences, market actors and privately run institutions?
I think you’d be interested into the following:
https://forum.freecapitalists.org/t/parasitic-liberalism-thesis/23272