They co-opted it. Smith mean that markets have outcomes from emergent behaviors that no central authority has to participate in. Pricing is a function of supply and demand and results from all participants in the market, not from a man in an ivory tower deciding.

The state reaped they could create levers to pull and assumed the roll of the hand. Not so invisible but sort of to the average person.

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Exactly. It was co-opted.

Many different issues are being co-opted in the same way to serve a political agenda and create more division right now.

“Just let us pull more levers, we promise we want the best for you…”

Then a few generations later everyone’s bankrupt.

If more people understood the #autonomy that is possible with #bitcoin more people could escape and use a platform that is outside of fiat currency.