How quaint. Let me describe a lesson patently obvious to anyone who has sat in on enterprise sales at a scaling B2B startup. An economy "here market participan

How quaint. Let me describe a lesson patently obvious to anyone who has sat in on enterprise sales at a scaling B2B startup. An economy "here market participants are free to choose among products offered and must bear the cost of their own market purchases" is certainly not the one that exists in the USA or the other largest nation-states by GDP. Here, as is there, a complex interplay of central and state-level government ensures monopolistic or monopsonistic consolidation occurs, drives, and many would say manipulates market motions. This isn't to say that efficiency doesn't mediate resource accumulation or allocation; far from it. But it's certainly not a rule for how contracts are decided and resources allocated.