Anti-Capitalist Sentiment (with some morality)

[CoccoBill]

The data linking poverty and crime has not been holding up lately

Could you provide a link?

There are two big issues with this: (1) what you're describing is how it would work in a poorly functioning system. Nobody is arguing that the state can't do a whole bunch of stuff and then have some of that stuff work better than others. That's standard variation. It should be expected that if you have violence monopolies, you're going to have varying outcomes based on other factors. Also, your claim that some places work well because of their violence monopolies (like where you live) is not accounting for the many other variables that academics believe to be more applicable, like variations in level of cultural homogeneity.

I'm not really saying they work because of them, maybe more like despite them, but in the process the local brand of "violence monopoly" is ensuring a lot of basic necessities for everybody.

(2) Admitting a reduction in efficiency is admitting that your way is not the right way. Even an annual 0.1% increase in efficiency by a market system is enough to develop a more functional and moral system than the status quo. Not engaging efficiency is subsidizing ourselves at the expense of our progeny, so to speak. Of course, we're not dealing with numbers so tiny because the real amount of efficiency, growth, and innovation that the markets bring is far greater than 0.1%.

I don't see how any regulation automatically prohibits all increases in efficiency. There's been quite a bit of regulations for the past few hundred years and yet we've had a pretty good run of increased efficiency.

The Law of Unintended Consequences

Regulation by monopoly is antithetical to the endeavor of producing positive results. Unintended consequences and moral hazards are unavoidable when regulation is used, it doesn't matter how "good" they may be. It's like hydrating by drinking salt water.

That seems a bit inane. Unintended consequences [can] occur when not all the variables and dependencies are known, but they occur everywhere, not just with regulation. We learn more about them every day and we can learn from our mistakes. Hence the PDCA cycle.