re: Professor Javier Milei explains why the neo-classical economic model is flawed. CPAC.

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Serious question, how old are you?

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None of your ad hominem attacks come off as serious, but to answer a direct question, late 30s.

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So off with you to go create Utopia, oh Foolish One.

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I do not seek Utopia, but do seek a laissez-faire model with a purpose that is not merely efficiency. To address one of your points though, you appear to to have blind trust and faith that the market will do what is "best" if left to its own ends. As discussed with monopolies and abusive labor practices, I disagree.

Desiring more ownership through small scale artisanship and employee owned coops is not complete "pie in the sky" thinking. Is it immediately practical in all sectors? No. Are there solid examples (Mondragon is Spain) of it working? Yes. Do I think there is room for such models to grow in the U.S.? Yes. Would it be a benefit to reexamine distributivist principles for curbing Capitalism's disregard for health of society's building blocks (the family)? Yes.

You missed entirely my point about "ties that bind". I contend that free markets work best when both sides share values. For a time, that meant Catholicism, then Christendom, and then Patriotism. As our common morality has eroded with modernism, laissez-faire Capitalism increasingly cannot be seen as the tide that raises all boats. It is an effective engine for answering and exacerbating the modern world's unquenchable thirst for material things.