To say that “human nature won’t allow” a free market is to completely invert reality. It is precisely because human beings are self-interested, imperfect, and wildly diverse in their aims that the free market is not only possible — it is necessary. The market, grounded in private property and voluntary exchange, is the only mechanism that peacefully reconciles these differences without coercion or conflict.

The idea that markets require angelic behavior is a grotesque caricature. It is not utopianism to let individuals act freely; it is utopianism to believe that flawed men, handed a monopoly on violence through the State, will somehow transcend their nature and rule justly over others. That is the real fantasy — the worship of the State as a benevolent god, when in truth it is a parasitic gang of plunderers cloaked in legitimacy.

Markets arise naturally and spontaneously wherever people are free. It is the State — the institutionalization of coercion — that is the historical anomaly and the perennial source of war, poverty, and oppression.

So no, the free market isn’t some naïve ideal. It is the only moral and practical framework for human cooperation. The real myth, the real danger, is your faith in Leviathan.