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Re:Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts by TeMPOraL on Monday March 20, 2023 @12:45PM (#35234404)
They're not. "Free market" is an unstable phenomenon that exists only when dynamically stabilized by appropriate regulations. Without that, it collapses on itself.
Re:Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts by magila on Monday March 20, 2023 @01:16PM (#35234972)
I honestly can't tell if you're serious.
Re:Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts by thwayunion on Monday March 20, 2023 @01:40PM (#35235437)
Modern markets are obviously legal abstractions.

Even the labor market is held up with elaborate legal structures; e.g.,

1. stopping me from squatting in my employer's office while I start a new company or

2. copying my employer's codebase, or

3. exfiltrating my employer's customer and pricing lists, or

4. holding two jobs at competing companies at the same time, or

5. shorting my employer's stock then actively sabotaging the company.

Labor markets can't exist without lots of strong legal guardrails, and in the case of tech those property rights and contractual obligations are highly fictional and unnatural. Nothing like early civilized man bartering at the bazaar.

The amount of propaganda/brainwashing required to believe that something like a modern equity or labor market is a naturally occurring phenomenon... oof.

Re:Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts by TeMPOraL on Monday March 20, 2023 @01:29PM (#35235235)
I'm absolutely serious. Try to take the things you know about the free markets, supply and demand, etc. and simulate them in your head. Like, run them in a game loop for a couple steps. It should become apparent that the ideal free market is not even an equilibrium state.