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A comment on The Google Shuttle Effect: Gentrification and San Francisco's Dot Com Boom 2.0. Parent comment

Re:The Google Shuttle Effect: Gentrification and San Franci... by mempko on Thursday January 16, 2014 @06:24PM (#7073189)
Markets are not any more natural to humans than driving cars or using a cellphone. They are a human invention, not something that comes out of nature, or whatever natural humans do.
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Re:The Google Shuttle Effect: Gentrification and San Franci... by vdaniuk on Thursday January 16, 2014 @06:43PM (#7073278)
Markets are emergent phenomena from trading and ownership. Most cultures independently came to establishing various types of markets, so I'd argue that yeah, until we are not in a post-scarcity society, markets are natural
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