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[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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 (1 children)

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.