When you let the market rip, you are tapping into the most powerful distributed computing system in the universe: the collective desires and needs of billions of people. No central planner, no matter how many degrees they have or how many supercomputers they run, can ever hope to outsmart the swarm intelligence of the crowd. In a free market, prices aren't just numbers; they are signals, distinct packets of information wrapped in incentives that tell the world exactly where resources need to go. When you try to manipulate that with price controls or subsidies, you aren't just tweaking the economy; you are blinding the very mechanism that keeps society from starving. You get shortages, you get waste, and you get the gray, soulless stagnation that defines every controlled economy in history.