In the jungle, some gain only at the expense of others. On the market, everyone gains. It is the market — the contractual society that wrests order out of chaos, that subdues nature and eradicates the jungle, that permits the “weak” to live productively, or out of gift s from production, in a regal style compared to the life of the “strong” in the jungle.
Murray N. Rothbard
Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, pp. 1325–26
Olivia Rondeau is the Hazlitt Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education.
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