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a market dont require the intention of buying and selling, just the exchange of something in return for something else. Exchange of what? Goods and services fo
by mahmud 16y ago
a market dont require the intention of buying and selling, just the exchange of something in return for something else.
Exchange of what? Goods and services for other goods and services of comparable value, or cash, or notes of debt?
Is that not the definition of a market?
Here is a human gathering for you: a funeral. What goods & services are changing hands? And please don't say "the family's savings going to the funeral home".
- winxordie 16y agoMoney is exchanged for the rite of ceremonial burial. Most people don't just stick their mum into the ground - it's just not "proper". Social factors require a ritual market in most societies.
- mahmud 16y agoI pity your society. In mine, the community buries its dead for free. You're not even supposed to cook at your own house for weeks, neighbors bring in food.
- Semiapies 16y agoDo you really think you're saying anything useful by baldly ignoring the context of the original statement in order to make a fuss over "free market capitalists"? The context is not funerals or family reunions or random events, it's communities of people interacting over time.
- pyre 16y agoAt a funeral, people exchange stories, comfort, and grief.
- mahmud 16y agoIn a market, participants are indifferent to where they get their products and services from, as long as the price is right. In a funeral, I bloody hell care who comes to grief with me, more importantly, I care about who didn't.