part of neoliberalism is a theory that everything is a market, in some "natural state" and it's only our human meddling that keeps it from being "free" ... ther

part of neoliberalism is a theory that everything is a market, in some "natural state" and it's only our human meddling that keeps it from being "free" ... there's been a century of Economic Anthropology (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_anthropology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_anthropology) that shows this simply does not exist, there is no "natural state" and the definition of "free market" is constantly re-framed. It's a contemporary human social construct and a set of rather arbitrarily defined cultural rules. Market fundamentalism is a form of political convenience, not based on any empirical study of reality.