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Re:Congress is set to ban most surprise medical bills by 8note on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @11:04AM (#25507620)
Coercion is simply an economic system too?

I tell you to do work, and if you don't I shoot you. It's just economics; I'm trading not shooting you for your labour and everyone comes out happy

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Re:Congress is set to ban most surprise medical bills by unishark on Sunday December 27, 2020 @06:33AM (#25550336)
No, economic systems are a superset of systems with coercion, and also include systems without coercion. So when I said "simply" an economic system, I meant lacking in coercion. Your example includes both. Also it's silly to call it trade.

Were you making an analogy for the economics of socialized medicine with the forcing of labor?

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