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...emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." {With thanks & apologies to John Rogers}

but if there’s no invisible hand how do we escape culpability for our actions

Doesn't quite live up to the promise of the premise but this is gold "What’s that, son? The hand gave you nightmares? I’m sorry to hear that, although it does explain why you used to wake up in the middle of the night screaming, “The fingers! They’re unregulated!”

Relevant: xkcd.com/958/

A friend used to use the invisible hand as a reason for the most ridiculous shit. Until I called him out on it. He no longer speaks to me. But that's because he married someone who thinks that the "R" word is an acceptable catch-all epithet. He was still pretty steamed though.