Some laws, like those against theft and violence, increase competitiveness. The ideal state has such laws - that establish a free market based on voluntary interaction - and little else. And indeed, states that get closest to this ideal have the best economic growth rates and trends in QoL improvements.
If fact, if you want competitiveness you need to prevent a fully free market.
No matter how many times this is explained, people still continue to make this incredibly simple and enormously consequential mistake.
If we're taking the reductionist view that economic output is the only important measure of society, then people need to understand that means maximizing competition not maximizing a free market.
> And indeed, states that get closest to this ideal have the best economic growth rates and trends in QoL improvements.
Isn't this just a cleverly worded tautology? It's like saying healthy people tend to live longer and happier lives. But is it actionable information? Not really.
Again, I don't see the tautology in my statement, and I know I'm asking for elaboration in good faith, so there's no way I could see it from your perspective.
