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minus-squaremightyfoolish@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up92arrow-down1·edit-22 months agoAre we in a “free market” or we not? The answer is “depends on what lobbyists want.”
minus-squareTheDubz87@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 months agoFree market goes to the highest bidder.
minus-squarerottingleaf@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·2 months agoFree 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.
minus-squaremaynarkh@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoAlso, the free market is a tool, not a utopia. It optimizes for whatever the people setting the limits of it make it optimize for.
minus-squarerottingleaf@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoHence things I said. Otherwise the wheel is free for taking for the worst people.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoFree for me and not for thee.
minus-squarepaf0@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoTo play devil’s advocate for a moment, is it really a free market if we are incentivizing one technology over another?
Are we in a “free market” or we not? The answer is “depends on what lobbyists want.”
Free market goes to the highest bidder.
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.
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.
Hence things I said. Otherwise the wheel is free for taking for the worst people.
Free for me and not for thee.
To play devil’s advocate for a moment, is it really a free market if we are incentivizing one technology over another?