Again, there are people losing right now in the name of "protecting" others.
If you want to live in a world of original Pareto optimality, we're going to have to ban most, if not all, government functions.
Absolutely. Attempting to apply theoretical economics with its silly assumptions that don't match anything in the real world isn't a good idea.
I'm coming to the view that the best that theoretical economics can do at the moment is give us an idea of what might be possible, not what is. That's true of most system sciences really.
Perhaps these conditions exist in a parallel world described by theoretical physics inhabited by sentient, sociopathic supercomputers. It is not, however, the world you or I live in. No raindrop believes itself responsible for the flood that follows.