Zawinski's saw on lazy thinking applied to economics

Jamie Zawinski once said,

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ‘I know, I’ll use regular expressions.’ Now they have two problems.

But lazy thinking like this doesn’t just happen in software development. Consider economics:

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ‘I know, Let’s let the market decide.’ Now they have two problems.

Lazy thinking is everywhere. Now, back to your regularly scheduled programming.