In the Bitcoin economy the market = consensus
Until consensus approves a block size increase then you might as well say that the market does not agree to one either.
I agree.
You are yet again guilty of the very sophism Carlton Banks pointed out. The reason the
market consensus tolerates a limit to the left of Q* is because of the OBVIOUS & CONSIDERABLE negative externalities brought about by an unbounded block size.
On the other hand, what consensus does not tolerate is your pathetic repeated attempts to hand wave away this issue as trivial and non-important when it is
fundamental to the incentives of Bitcoin