&gt; Why do the rich use law enforcement to interfere with the non-rich economy?<p>Because they will see the confiscation of land and resources by the non-rich (a necessary step to establishing a new economy from which they won&#x27;t be excluded) as a threat to themselves.<p>Remember we are dealing here with irrational, imperfectly-informed people, not with perfectly-informed, perfectly-rational frictionless spherical humanoids in uniform economic motion.