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roachboy, your position betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of what capitalism is all about. Capitalism is not anarchy. It presumes a certain level of societal infrastructure and the rule of law. It does not follow, however, that having a social contract therefore means all activity is at the grace of the government and that nothing is private. That's why your post was incoherent to me: your'e making leaps of inference that have no syllogistic continuity.
Milton Friedman has held a more prestigious professorship than you, won more Nobel Prizes and received considerably more professional recognition. I'd be very careful, if I were you, about calling him an idiot. His theories have largely (though not totally) been vindicated by time, as you can tell from looking at most economic discourse nowadays and the relative weight placed on Keynesian versus Friedmanite solutions. Neither model is followed rigidly, of course, but the emhpasis in recent years has been considerably more Friedmanite (monetary rather than fiscal), especially in the US.
We all need oxygen to breathe. That doesn't mean we are all creatures of oxygen and nothing else matters. Ditto societal infrastructure as provided through government.
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