yeah i don’t believe in differentiation with terms like laissez-faire or free-market capitalism- that is what capitalism fundamentally is to me.

but it is just an economic lens, and society is also much broader than that.

i think the state’s size and scale comes from the momentum of the past- this should change. IP/patents are meaningful because of that, and i believe they mostly come about because of the same incentives we’ve both discussed- self-interested individuals can lobby for it.

if the state is not as powerful, it doesn’t matter if that happens.