Re:Is everything an MLM
by coliveira on Sunday April 21, 2019 @11:26AM
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Exactly, worship of capitalism is a disease where the afflicted can only see the advantages of this "fantastic" system. Despite the widespread evidence that there are many problems in the world that are directly caused by market forces, with the obvious conclusion that there is nothing a priori "benign" about these market forces that are worshiped by so many.
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"Market forces" is just another way of saying "individual choices". Restricting individual choices has certainly been practised across a number of political and economic systems but there is always a question - who decides what to restrict?
> "Market forces" is just another way of saying "individual choices"
This is false because my individual choice matters infinitesimally less in the market than the choice of Coca-cola or any other large big corporation. In the other hand, I have a lot more power in the market than a homeless for example. So the right answer is that market forces are "weighted individual choices", and when a few of these individuals have billions in their bank account my individual choice is worth close to zero.
Re:Is everything an MLM
by onemoresoop on Monday April 22, 2019 @11:33AM
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Let's start with an entity that doesn't have the first incentive of profit and power acumulation?