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Government’s role is not to control everything, allocate every outcome or guarantee that everyone finishes with the same result. That is socialism’s conceit.

Its proper role is far more modest and far more important: to make the rules fair, stable and enforceable.

Fairness does not mean equality of outcome. It means that the rules applying when you enter remain the rules while you compete. It means they are not rewritten halfway through the game to favour those already powerful enough to influence the referee.

It means fraud is punished. Promises are enforceable. Property is protected. Contracts mean what they say. Dominant actors cannot use political access, regulatory privilege or hidden coercion to crush everyone beneath them.

Everyone should have a genuine chance. Not the same talent, capital, judgement or result. A chance.

That is the institutional foundation of a functioning market.

Markets without rules do not become free. They become captured.

Government should not decide who wins. It should ensure that victory is not purchased by owning the rulebook, bribing the referee or changing the score after the match.