Hagan algo ilegal...

... y cosecharán mercados negros. De drogas a al aborto, de la prostitución al alcohol... Ahora los estudiantes del Reino Unido nos demuestran el poder del mercado para poder conseguir comida chatarra, gracias a que el gobierno británico la ha estupidamente prohíbido en las escuelas. ¿Quién es el gobierno para impedirle a un jóven que no coma un sandwich? ¿Porqué no ofrecer por igual una barra de ensaladas o ricas tortas? Pero no, prohibir no necesita de imaginación. Copio del NYT:

Glen Minikin/Ross Parry Agency

Healthy Food at School? ‘Rubbish’

After the British government banned junk food from its school cafeterias, “meat pie mums” began selling contraband hamburgers, fries and sandwiches to students."

Creo que haría bien recordar a Milton Friedman, odiado liberal de muchos amantes del "poder del Estado":

"The maintenance of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing. And it requires a self-denying ordinance of the most extreme kind. It requires a willingness to put up with temporary evils on the basis of the subtle and sophisticated understanding that if you step in to try to do them, you not only may make them ... worse, but you will spread your tentacles and get bad results elsewhere ...

The argument for collectivism, for government doing something is simple. Anybody can understand it. If there's something wrong, pass a law. If somebody is in trouble, get Mr. X to help him out. The argument for a free - for voluntary cooperation, for a free market is not nearly so simple. It says, you know, if you allow people to cooperate voluntarily and don't interfere with them, indirectly through the operation of the market, they will improve matters more than you can improve it directly by appointing somebody. That's a subtle argument, and it's hard for people to understand," - Milton Friedman, en 1975.