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[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 12 points 6 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.

[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 13 points 6 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.

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 months ago

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

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