Spontaneous order is interrupted (and as we have seen, often perilously) by top-town control from intervention to full-on socialism. In a system as complex as the market such attempts at outside, artificial control are doomed to fail. As we know, roundabout production requires the ambiguous and uncertain focus on a future advantage—shi. However, the distortions of interventionism paradoxically morph that into a focus on quick and decisive outcomes—li.
