On: California needs real math education, not gimmicks

[c_crank]

But to have a functioning free market, you need a basic functioning legal system, so people exchanging goods and services don't get robbed.

[throw9away6 → c_crank]

For the market to be free the legal system has to exert a lot of pressure. The natural state of markets is not free.

[WalterBright → c_crank]

That's correct.

[c_crank → WalterBright]

It means if you try to apply a free market system to a place without law and order, you'll have about as much of a mess as you started with. So the first step is to enforce governance.

[WalterBright → c_crank]

N. Korea and the Soviet Union and pre-free market China also had effective governments.