I&#x27;m very happy my governement makes regulations :
* the market didn&#x27;t decide VW should not fake emission
* the market didn&#x27;t decide Fukushima to be secured
* the market didn&#x27;t decide bisphenol-A is dangerous
* the market didn&#x27;t avoid asbestos
* the market didn&#x27;t choose forbid to sell cigarettes to people who can be hurt by them (i.e. children)
* the market didn&#x27;t decide tax avoidance is a bad thing<p>Eventually, those things will get fixed, but when the damage is done (see asbestos), i.e. when it&#x27;s too late.<p>The problem is that market pushes business to make money, not to be virtuous. That&#x27;s because when a business must choose between &quot;closing&quot; and &quot;going on but being less than virtuous&quot;, the business says &quot;I don&#x27;t have choice, it&#x27;s either live or nothing&quot;, so I choose &quot;live on&quot;.<p>I understand that not all business operate like this. But many people will make that choice because it&#x27;s practical. Much like choosing between free software (politically fine but economically broken (that&#x27;s an approximation)) and proprietary software (ok to enslave people but economically viable).