Why people do not believe in libertarianism

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It doesn't help that too many in the "free market" camp are unwilling to admit that there are some areas where a totally free market is not optimal.

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According to whose subjective, personal preferences? And if you hammer it into alignment in one area to make it "better" you just make it worse somewhere else.

It's closer to optimal for any reasonable, complete set of criteria than any forcibly-manipulated system, so it's "optimally sub-optimal."