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No there isn't. What you consider to be "right" encodes a lot of individual preferences as to what you'd like it to be (and a presumption that your prescriptive action would have the effects you desire).

Perhaps a better society would have higher employment, perhaps a better society could afford for one spouse to stay at home and take care of the kids, perhaps a better society would have lower income disparity, perhaps a better society would have more innovation, perhaps it would have more ecological conservation. It's impossible for a single economic lever to square the circle on all of those outcomes for everyone.




There's a conflict there, though.

Free markets are "one dollar, one vote", as compared to government which is (nominally) "one man, one vote".


Free markets are not one dollar one vote. I don't know where you got that idea from. Each person has a schedule of preferences, and a dollar may mean something different to two different people, or even one person from one day to the next.

The other half of your premise is also completely mistaken. Voting power is not linear in number of votes you get.




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