What does that mean? The free market is all wrong and every alternative is correct? Much of what we have, especially in the computer industry, is due to the free market.

What garage startup will succeed if money is distributed by the fiat of powerful rather than by a merit-based market (and yes, we can improve the meritocracy).

I really have no idea how this follows from my comment.

I was guessing at what you meant, as I thought my first sentence conveyed. More clearly: I don't know what you are trying to say. :)