I would highly recommend everyone watch this.  It’s 18 minutes that you may or may not have available but I think her message is important to the discussion on free markets versus central planning.

In the talk, she describes the idea that everyone has a genius inside of them rather than the current belief that few individuals are genius.  If you concur, then I think you would tend to the idea that control should be pushed as close to the individual, and that the freedom to act (within bounds) by the individual is the best way for us to solve the problems we face as a society.  Too many times I have people say that ‘if we had the right people in government’ or ‘if we could get 20 smart guys in a room’ we would be able to solve the toughest, most complex problems.

If you believe in the ideas she describes, you would not come to the conclusion that the toughest, most complex problems can be solved by the ideas of the few (no matter what our past and current administrations say).  You would need to recognize that the complexity of the problem demands the little bit of genius that resides in all of us.  And the best way to nurture that genius is not going to come from stifling it as big governments tend to do.