I would argue, that free markets are very good in fullfilling many needs. Since requests can be expressed with a price someone is willing to pay. But there are market failures in particular cases. How much does someone have to pay for an action that reduces the freedoms of everyone? To whom should they pay it? And how do they pay it? Examples are: Littering, emitting carbon dioxide, emitting dirt water, poisoning water sinks, poisoning the sea. In places, where nobody is the rightful owner of a place or street, who takes other accountable for insustainable behavior? I think we can find good regulations for such externalities. But they are not naturally selfregulating. Since most people do not actively request good airquality with money. Every individual is dependent on collective decisions to keep polution to a level, that is not harming our health. And for such solutions burocrats are needed in my perspective. And I would also respect that every human grows as a dependent creature. So we should accept, that there is no opportunity for human life, without people that gift to others without getting an instant return. Nor a contractual counter deal. Therefore the idea of "egoist behavior is good for economy" is simply a lie. I can see, that free trade offers win-win situations. But egoistic tendencies do not add additional value to that.

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Well I could argue that there will always be a market for everything and you will always find someone to sell if you are buying ( at the price the seller is comfortable to sell ). You can buy politicians, drugs, guns - everything as long as you offer a price someone is willing to sell and vice versa. Not to get too political, but Netanyahu was trying to buy the US army with several presidents and finally he found Trump, just like Big Oil companies did with the Maduro problem. Both capitalism and socialism encourage greed. With capitalism it is in the people with money, in socialism is the people with power. That's why I think these are the two sides of one coin and the solution is to manage a system in between that encourage innovations with greed guard rails.
Class-action lawsuits were made for this. All the big early wins for the environmental movement in the US were class actions against polluters using the (literally medieval) Tort of Nuisance. Richard Nixon didn't create the EPA in 1972 because he cared about the Spotted Owl. He created the EPA so his Big Polluter buddies could now shield themselves with "I was compliant with regulations at the time" while simultaneously raising paperwork barriers to entry against competitors. Torts exist to punish the guilty. Regulations exist to shield them (and construct cozy monopolies on the side).
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