>let the free market converse its way towards a compromise.
There's no "free market" that's an ideology (a made-up idea of how the world is that obscures one's thinking).
With government: I have more money than you, and I have friends in Washington. I'll use it to push things my way.
(And lest somebody suggest: "sure, the problem is government", here's the government less version:)
Without government: I have more money and/or power than you, and I have you beat to a pulp, and also spend it to make people go along with my propositions. I'll use it to push things my way.
Usually is a mix of 1 and 2. E.g most Latin American countries, for example, there's not much of a "free market" with regards to their exports/materials because stronger countries force them (with military might, diplomatic pressure, juntas, putting friendly lackeys in power, briding, etc) to go with their way. A powerful country can spend tens of millions of dollars just to promote a favorable candidate in power in a smaller countries (easily recouperated in a day's worth of profits from resource and trade agreements).
And of course with things as a patent system, intellectual property, etc, there's no free market also. The IP owner sets the terms, and you cannot offer the same thing for a reduced price even if you can.
> There's no "free market" that's an ideology (a made-up idea of how the world is that obscures one's thinking).
Everything is a made up idea that obscures one's thinking. I think I have to drive on roads, but really nothing is stopping me. I could get through traffic faster if I just started driving on the shoulder, but the problem is if everyone did that it would be chaos, and would be worse overall. Systems have the potential to create a net good.
Well, the "have to drive on the road" is a "law" or an imperative not an ideology. People know it's a made up convention so that we don't hit each other or depestrians.
People talking about free market, on the other hand, think of it as a real, concrete thing, and even further, that it has this and that properties. Thinking thusly about a made-up thing can have dire consequences -- like when hallucinating on drugs and jumping from a building to avoid a huge snake.
There's no "free market" that's an ideology (a made-up idea of how the world is that obscures one's thinking).
With government: I have more money than you, and I have friends in Washington. I'll use it to push things my way.
(And lest somebody suggest: "sure, the problem is government", here's the government less version:)
Without government: I have more money and/or power than you, and I have you beat to a pulp, and also spend it to make people go along with my propositions. I'll use it to push things my way.
Usually is a mix of 1 and 2. E.g most Latin American countries, for example, there's not much of a "free market" with regards to their exports/materials because stronger countries force them (with military might, diplomatic pressure, juntas, putting friendly lackeys in power, briding, etc) to go with their way. A powerful country can spend tens of millions of dollars just to promote a favorable candidate in power in a smaller countries (easily recouperated in a day's worth of profits from resource and trade agreements).
And of course with things as a patent system, intellectual property, etc, there's no free market also. The IP owner sets the terms, and you cannot offer the same thing for a reduced price even if you can.