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I, a socialist, hate markets. They are simplistic and functional artifacts of the available way to pass information.

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Cool, what is your preferred replacement and does everyone in this thread agree? You have managed to continue criticism but not offer a replacement yet again.

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The ole can have criticism without perfect solutions response. Cool, how useless and pointless of you.

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I’m confused, isn’t criticism without alternatives itself useless and pointless?

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I, a socialist don’t. I think however they should be tightly regulated. And kept away from basic necessitys.

Markets have proven time and again to only serve oligarchs, or create oligarchs to serve. When left to their own wont. If we can choose to participate or not in the markets. Then there is no issue with markets. When we’re slaves to the markets as we currently are however. No one is free.

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Markets have lots of issues; you just named a bunch. Markets are subject to all kinds of hidden information manipulation contrary to prompting non cooperation and solving for individual maximums via exploitation like you literally outlined. Your wish to magically regulate them is just going to be corrupted.

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Which is why I specifically mentioned decoupling from necessities. Regardless it seems like we are both blocked from the community LOL. But it’s not like I expected more from the community based around memes

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So, you would never trade with someone else something you have for something they have? You want to be entirely self sufficient?

If this isn’t true, why do think markets serve no purpose?

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Do you really think all exchange of goods is a market?

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Yes. Do you not?

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