• @rottingleaf@lemmy.zip
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    122 months ago

    Free market involves pluralism of systems and distribution of power as important preconditions. Lobbyism requires monoculture of systems and power being sufficiently centralized to be controllable.

    • @maynarkh@feddit.nl
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      132 months ago

      Also, the free market is a tool, not a utopia. It optimizes for whatever the people setting the limits of it make it optimize for.