Markets And Morality

Why laissez-faire is misguided

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Evolution works by means of organisms adapting to their environments over long spans of time through the gradual accumulation of traits arising by chance from DNA copy-errors. It’s obvious from this that our primate-centric notions of “morality” have no relevance to how the wider world actually works. Indeed, as scientists learned more and more about the natural world as the…