Seriously, in fairness to them, in their world, none of these hedge funds or corporations would have become big enough to control the markets and amass trillions

I'd argue that premise, hard.

I sympathize with the philosophy. I really was a hard-core libertarian for almost 2 decades. But it's honestly just cringe and dumb. Never thought I'd be saying it but I am. It's just an immature, pacifist philosophy and, of course, look at WHO created it and it starts to make sense.