You summed it up perfectly, no regulation needed. The free flow of thoughts and ideas will lead in the desired direction. As far as governments go, they all suck, everyone of them. Plus your comments below about Galt's Gulch tugged at my heart a bit, I've given this book to many folks over the years, sadly only a couple have gotten the message within.
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That's how it is. Life becomes very different once you start using VALUES as markers. Everything just falls apart. You realize you were born into a violent system and you are beaten - emotionally or phyically (bullied) or both your entire life. Perhaps not as brutal as it sounds..but the fact that most people can't seems to grasp that simple thing that you never signed a contract where you say it's not OK to keep all your own money. You never signed up for that "social contract". And even more frustrating for many libertarians, and discriptive for the madness is this argument; "well, why are you using the welfare state then? move somewhere else!"
First of all, it would be stupid not to use the benefits of the system you are forced to live under. If you are in a Gulag camp in Syberia you don't refuse to use a blanket when you sleep, or the bed - just because you oppose being dragged up there to die a slow horrible death as a slave worker.Also..you can't just leave a country. And where would you go? All countries more or less run the same OS :)
Sure, comparing the Norwegian welfare state to Sybarian gulag camps is a tad far fetched...but at best, the walfare state reduce so many people into mediocricy and quite a lot of people into dullness and a life in the couch with tv-shows and anxiety and depression. It kills entrepreneurship and it kills go-getter mindset. From the day you enter the indoctrination camps called school you are slowly drained..all your enthusiasm and drive is slowly crushed.
SOME people make it tough. Those who are masters at adapting. Those who are smart and good looking and outrovert and good at making friends. Sure..these people do well in almost any kind of system. But most other people are inhibited. They turn out mediocre at best or beaten down and confused facing a horribly scary world that they don't understand when they leave school.