 In service of the overall project of fostering the general welfare, the point of law and legislation is to craft a framework such that a market order is a history of pareto-improving  trades.[5]  A primary role of law and (when necessary) legislation is to narrow people’s options so as to limit opportunities to get rich at other people’s  expense.[6]  So long as the rule of law can internalize external cost and thereby steer innovation in mutually beneficial rather than parasitic directions, an evolving order will be an order of rising prosperity.