 Hayek’s dismissal of social justice as a mirage is a gratuitously tendentious way of packaging his actual view. However, the motive for his dismissal is understandable: namely his dread of the prospect of licensing a justice czar to intervene to make sure prices are fair, thus derailing the wealth-creating spontaneous trading of a free society within the rule of law. Paraphrasing Michael Munger (2013), the closest thing we have to an omniscient social planner are the twin forces of supply and demand, but those forces speak to people through prices. When the state makes it a crime to charge what the market will bear, it can thereby become illegal for insulin users to respond to a power failure by outbidding beer drinkers for insulin-preserving ice as supply runs short. In a case like that, the law has struck dumb the only voice that could give people reliable, timely advice on how resources need to be allocated right now. This is Hayek’s ultimate concern throughout his writings, and it also underlies his otherwise ill-fitting polemic against social justice. To Hayek, it is simply a mirage to think fairness has anything to do with stopping the price mechanism from telling us where our services are most in need.