Hence markets are a peripheral feature of normal society. The pursuit of material gain only takes place where wealth determines social status. Affluence is to be displayed rather than enjoyed. In nineteenth century Britain, nouveau riche capitalists did not seek to overthrow or outdo the landed gentry. The social anthropologist understood that humans are fundamentally cooperative beings, and that human societies naturally seek to form institutions that confer social and economic protection.
Protection means supporting producers who are a part of one's own society.
And protection means security, including social security. Unlike protection which is a natural human impulse, the market system is an artificial construct of the human intellect. It eschews protection and emphasises discipline. Competition is about discipline and conformity, not freedom. The tyranny of the self-regulating market can only become the central organising mechanism if it is intentionally imposed on society by a government with dubious democratic credentials, and can only survive for any length of time if such a government resists the spontaneous human impulse towards protection.