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Re:Farmworkers face coronavirus risk: ‘You can’t pick strawb... by thatcat on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @02:45PM (#22752175)
Lol, the price of corn, or even oil, coal, and steel are constantly adjusted by gov policies. You've proven the opposite of your point - market price is political and can be controlled when it is politically favorable.
Re:Farmworkers face coronavirus risk: ‘You can’t pick strawb... by missedthecue on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @05:12PM (#22753569)
You've missed the point of my comment. I never said that the government can't manipulate markets through price floors, ceilings, or subsidies.

I said the market system is amoral. We can't will it to do what we want. You can't force a job to suddenly create $20/hr of economic value by placing a mandatory $20/hr price on it. Basic mathematics doesn't allow that.

Re:Farmworkers face coronavirus risk: ‘You can’t pick strawb... by thatcat on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @10:44PM (#22755792)
The market and it's values are a manifestation of the people participating in the market and therefore the any morality or values a market has would simply be a reflection of the values and morality of those people.
Re:Farmworkers face coronavirus risk: ‘You can’t pick strawb... by bluGill on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @04:38PM (#22753272)
There is political intervention, but even that works in context of the market and so can only go so far.
Re:Farmworkers face coronavirus risk: ‘You can’t pick strawb... by thatcat on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @05:08PM (#22753537)
You could just as easily say it's the market that works in the context of politics, the market can only go so far, due to policy limits. I.e you can't build a nuclear reactor without approval so policy can durectly control market competition.
Re:Farmworkers face coronavirus risk: ‘You can’t pick strawb... by bluGill on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @10:01PM (#22755582)
You could, but you would be wrong as the market is universal. You can manipulate it, but ultimately it limits what you can do.
Re:Farmworkers face coronavirus risk: ‘You can’t pick strawb... by thatcat on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @10:35PM (#22755753)
the market is a social construct just like politics, there is nothing universal about it
Re:Farmworkers face coronavirus risk: ‘You can’t pick strawb... by bluGill on Thursday April 02, 2020 @05:13PM (#22763937)
All children discover it though, so it is universal to humans. A few other animals have it as well.