The ideal economy: How do we get what we really want?

In an ideal economy, people get 100 percent of what they want when they are 100 percent free to produce and spend as they wish. Unfortunately, this economy has never existed. Meddling with the system, such as dictating prices instead of the market setting prices, reduces the net satisfaction of a purchase. Meddling has a way of getting people less of what they want and more of what someone else wants them to have.