Originally Posted by numan
Unfortunately, the market is all too often a distortion of the market ---- particularly when it is a market of monopolies and vast conglomerates.

This is why I call our economic system the "Invisible Mind of the Marketplace," ---- as opposed to the "Invisible Hand of the Marketplace" of ancient fable.

Quite a few people here seem to whine about government dictatorship; very few seem to be bothered about economic dictatorship. To me, both are equally loathsome, and a cause for alarm. Indeed, economic interests are able to worm themselves into our lives even more dangerously than the government.
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Frankly, Numan, I fail to see the difference between the two

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