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Board Economics
Re: What we need is FAIR markets, not free markets.
by
LokeRundt
on 04/07/2011, 22:47:46 UTC
Our current unregulated free markets are not fair. Prices fluctuate all the time. Free markets will create too much wealth for people.

lolwut?  Where you living with an unregulated free-market?

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Life should be fair.

And yet it is not (regardless of whether or not it "should" be).  For example, I was born with a genetic disposition to a chronic neurological disorder and have to walk with those support canes (with the arm-braces for stability...protip: chicks dig it when you cyber-punk out your disability accouterments).  Saying it's "not fair" or "should have been otherwise" is like saying the sky should be red because I have such an aversion to the color blue (even if the majority of people shared this aversion).  It does not compute