It's man's natural instinct to look to a higher authority when in doubt. Religion, government, it's all a natural development of the human mind (btw, I am a Christian). As to support the so called "unsubstantiated" claims, let me give an example: if you have a city with a full economy, and then give a stock market that publicly allows access to information on every business in the city, you doom yourself, but why? The reasoning is that if everyone has the same information, most will reach the same conclusion. So when a sell starts, eventually everyone falls in line and sells as well, because no one wants to lose their stock in falling companies, and so you cause a market freefall. Market crashes, and your economy is in shambles for the foreseeable future. The only way to have a true FME is to not have a stock market and remove the government completely in money matters. This also causes problems with the government being able to project power, because hiking taxes to support themselves enough to appropriately defend the country will cause a severe class gap to open. The sacrifice of the TRUE FME is a natural economic evolution. The problem afterwards being, what is the next step in the evolution process? But I digress, we could go forever debating this topic.
