Without occasional, necessary Government intervention, a socio-political-economic system will be a snake that eventually has to eat itself for lack of prey.
Sometimes, representative Government needs to be the apex predator that maintains societal and economic health, order, and prosperity in a capitalist ecosystem.
There's a reason apex predators have a lower reproduction rate than their prey. The lower reproduction rate is Nature's check on the apex predators.
Without Representative Government to act as a check on capitalism, unfettered capitalism would destroy itself when all competition was elminated.
When a whale dies, it does not get consumed by other whales. It's consumed by the smaller members of the food chain that will eventually sustain the prey that other whales need to consume.
In 2008/2009, the Government decided that other (Too Big To Fail) whales would get to consume the failed (dead) whales. This would leave less prey for smaller organisms , lower on the food chain to consume. This would interrupt the natural order and reduce the amount of prey available for future whales to feed upon.
Extinction, death, and decomposition are proceses that are necessary for sustenance and sustainability in Nature and Capitalist Economies. Extinction, death, and decomposition provide the opportunities necessary for upward mobility in the food chain. Without them, the self-sustaining cycles of Nature and Economics would stagnate and decline. This is what is happening in the US for the wrong-headed "Too Big To Fail" bailouts after the 2008/2009 Financial Crisis.
Government over-regulation and lack of competition can mute the natural effect of increasing prices - increased production with greater efficiencies. Thus here we are - trapped in a stagflationary purgatory of Too Big To Exist Government and Too Big To Fail Corporations.
Apropos, somebody posted this elsewhere on the forum:
Seems it ought to apply to government allocating housing stock, too.
