"[Steven Taylor's] point is apparently that some of the “larger providers,” the ones DEA is targeting, are trying to make a buck. To which [the] arch-capitalist me responds, So? The basic tenet of not just libertarianism but of economics since Adam Smith is that markets harness self-interest to productive purposes. That’s why grocery stores and drug companies and construction companies want money in exchange for food, shelter and medicine. More importantly, it’s why grocery stores provide more food to the public than I do; why construction companies build more housing than Steven Taylor does, and why drug companies produce more pharmaceuticals than my daughter’s brownie troop: there’s money in it for them. There are people who provide food, shelter and medicine for free. We call that charity, and it’s a worthy supplement to market activity, but that’s what it is, a supplement."