This is the famous libertarian cognitive vice, assuming that the quality of government is constant:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;marginalrevolution.com&#x2F;marginalrevolution&#x2F;2006&#x2F;08&#x2F;the_libertarian.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;marginalrevolution.com&#x2F;marginalrevolution&#x2F;2006&#x2F;08&#x2F;the...</a><p>Your theory needs to account for how e.g. Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, etc. also provide “the needs of life” with economies which are rather different than Greece. It&#x27;s just possible that quality of implementation matters as much as the original idea.