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"Markets are people". That's quite a statement. On the face of it, it's clearly not literally true, and neither is it true that markets are "the desire of human
by EliRivers 8y ago
"Markets are people". That's quite a statement. On the face of it, it's clearly not literally true, and neither is it true that markets are "the desire of human beings", although that's certainly a little closer. So what exactly are you saying?
The fundamentalist wing of the market religion does an awful lot of damage. It's quite possible to dislike how markets can be gamed, captured, distorted, abused, twisted and made to serve rich individuals without despising humans.
- conanbatt 8y agoA market is by definition a group of agents buying and selling from each other. Agent a formal word that eventually boils down to "person". Unless the lizard people have taken over.
- EliRivers 8y agoSo markets aren't people, and they aren't people's desire. "Market" barely qualifies as a noun; market is the actions of a group of buyers and sellers. A long way from the sensationalist original statement.
- conanbatt 8y agoNonsense. You'll have to find another argument to fix the cognitive dissonance of the statements "I want the best for people" and "Markets(people trading with each other) are evil"