There are many ways of allocating resources. A free market (if and when it exists) is one, and it tends to be efficient, if not fair.

Others include lottery, kleptocracy, autocracy, social-welfare state, theocracy, anarchy, communism, socialism, despotism.

"There is no god but the Market, and Milton Friedman is his Prophet!"

In the name of the Dollar, and of Saint Ayn, and of the the Trickle Down: amen, amen.