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The problem of optimizing the total wealth/benefit is a difficult non-linear problem. Individuals working only in their own self interests will likely not achieve global optimization and are likely to get stuck in a local optimization. In order to get past these local optimizations one needs an independent entity to help control the market and that is where the government comes in.
Anyone who believes that individuals acting completely alone in their own self interests serves the most good to society is naive.
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