• rottingleaf
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    8 months ago

    Free market involves pluralism of systems and distribution of power as important preconditions. Lobbyism requires monoculture of systems and power being sufficiently centralized to be controllable.

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      8 months ago

      Also, the free market is a tool, not a utopia. It optimizes for whatever the people setting the limits of it make it optimize for.

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        8 months ago

        Hence things I said. Otherwise the wheel is free for taking for the worst people.