Re:Trust-Busting as the Unsexy Answer to Google and Facebook
by munificent on Friday October 15, 2021 @06:16PM
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"Free market" is a fine term. People just forget about the "market" part.
A "market" isn't some natural emergent property of the physical or social world. They aren't formed by, like, volcanoes. A market, historically, is a space defined deliberately by a governing body where traders are allowed to participate and where trade is allowed to occur under a given set of rules.
It's suposed to be a free market, not a free anything-goes-chaos-and-anarchy.
A "market" isn't some natural emergent property of the physical or social world. They aren't formed by, like, volcanoes. A market, historically, is a space defined deliberately by a governing body where traders are allowed to participate and where trade is allowed to occur under a given set of rules.
It's suposed to be a free market, not a free anything-goes-chaos-and-anarchy.