Wouldn't you rather have a voluntary laissez-faire society when people/businesses have to constantly compete_?

Laissez-faire is great for a while, but you eventually get monopolies, and then they can charge whatever they want (i.e. current oil/food prices). Total free market economy always ends up with the biggest corporations screwing the working class. That's why laissez-faire is so appealing to already wealthy people. Hourly workers always get hurt the most. It's just wage slavery.