That's a pretty bold statement. How do you know for certain that the labor theory of value is flawed? Has it every actually been seriously tried? Further, yo

That's a pretty bold statement. How do you know for certain that the labor theory of value is flawed? Has it every actually been seriously tried? Further, you're implicitly saying that the "free market" view is the correct one. How can you possibly know this? Because it manages to work? Of course it does! Any programmer should know that when you're livelihood depends on it you can make any old garbage hang together long enough to get your next meal. I'm not saying "free market" hypothesis are "any old garbage", but rather that something simply not catastrophically failing doesn't mean it's the best answer or even a good one. You hold pretty strong beliefs for something that can't possibly be proven one way or the other.