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Re:Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed ... by hliyan on Sunday May 31, 2026 @01:57AM (#48343369)
Agreed. I would define a market as a mutual social contract that favours voluntary estimation of resource value, and exchange thereof, over violent competition for resources. Such a contact must necessarily be enforced, since voluntary compliance among humans is never 100%. So yes, some form of regulation is built into the very definition of a free market. I'm fond of saying that, as rules approach zero, competition approaches war.

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