If we resist the temptation to meddle, if we let the free market just run, we will find that the zippers improve over time. They had better. And this is not a form of idolatry called “trusting the free market,” or some abstraction called “capitalism.” To speak about markets, or Adam Smith’s invisible hand, is to use a form of shorthand. When we speak about the law of supply and demand (outside the control of any human agency), we are talking about the Author of that law, and of others. (I refer to the law of gravity, for example, or the three laws of motion.) In other words, the free market
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