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| text = Milton Friedman asks us to think of a tree, with leaves, in the sunlight. Consider the density of the leaves around different parts of the tree. “I suggest,” says Friedman, “that the leaves are positioned as if each leaf deliberately sought to maximize the amount of sunlight it receives, given the position of its neighbors, as if it knew the physical laws determining the amount of sunlight that would be received in various positions and could move rapidly or instantaneously from any one position to any other desired and unoccupied position.”  And thus we are distracted from the fact that in real life whole branches die off to achieve this distribution.  And other trees are killed as their light is cut off.
| cite = [[Mike Huben]], "{{Link |Mike Huben's Criticisms}}"
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