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Re:Precious Plastic Is in Trouble by gsf_emergency on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @10:20PM (#44187759)
(...I just think you haven't channeled enough of your schizotypy here :)

(I suspect one can find under-interpreted arguments in Graeber that support your unpopular claim but...)

In contrast, what seems really interesting (to me, &/or not just HN-blasphemous) is the alternate framing that

  Free markets can be extreme left-wing 
Can follow up on the discussion if you're interested-- maybe the real trouble is that Glen Weyl & Freedman haven't been proven crackpots

>That essay is important

In order to NOT be distracted by Freeman's essay, consider that it most likely hasnt ever crossed their minds that markets that look free can have much more intricate structure than the most uh thoughtful institution? Whether structure correlates with sentience is then the nub?

Then there's the apparent counterpoint of a field known as "institutional econs"; not quite as friendly a framing to schizos :(

Re:Precious Plastic Is in Trouble by PaulHoule on Thursday June 05, 2025 @11:50AM (#44192842)
Re:Precious Plastic Is in Trouble by gsf_emergency on Thursday June 05, 2025 @08:22PM (#44196792)
More specifically:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21535498

(The HN just for completeness; didn't see any remarkable dismissals there.. ntheless some (schizoid?) comments seemed worthy of being kept in my background eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21548795 )

https://archive.is/latest/www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/12/0...

>After such a catastrophic embarrassment, orthodox economists fell back on their strong suit—academic politics and institutional power.