if on ethical grounds society wished to distribute a good or service (for example, education or health care or food or beach houses) among people in a particular way like egalitarian principles it need not have government directly involved in producing or distributing that good or service. The desired distribution could be attained by redistributing income and wealth among the citizenry in a way that would drive the perfectly competitive private market to achieve the desired allocation of the good or service among the people. Better still, it would do so in the welfare-maximizing way predicted by the First Optimality Theorem