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Re:Banks, QE, and Money-Printing by ianleeclark on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @08:13AM (#24979303)
> Zero-grow and shrinking economies can allocate resources well through markets.

Capitalism isn't "a/many market(s)." Capitalism is much more than that, and one of those constituent pieces is profit-seeking.

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Re:Banks, QE, and Money-Printing by chii on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @08:26AM (#24979401)
a functioning market require profit-seeking behaviour.
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Re:Banks, QE, and Money-Printing by ianleeclark on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @08:41AM (#24979538)
You could have a market of simple exchange without profit-seeking behavior. A market is just a collection of social relations wherein people exchange things.
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