Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Capitalism's most dogmatic zealots have a mystical belief in the power of markets to ...
Capitalism's most dogmatic zealots have a mystical belief in the power of markets to "efficiently allocate" goods and services. For them, the process by which goods and services are offered and purchased performs a kind of vast, distributed computation that "discovers the price" of everything.
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