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I disagree - to trade is to be human, and markets are emergent phenomena rather than designed ones. Otherwise North Korea wouldn’t have black markets.

• moloch-hai 4y ago
  So, Neanderthal do not qualify, then? Your view of humanity is artificially narrow. North Korea is as much a product of shared history as anyplace else.
  • monero-xmr 4y ago
    Not sure I follow. My point is North Korea is a communist dictatorship that bans markets yet they exist anyway
    • moloch-hai 4y ago
      North Korea wishes they could keep their population in a vacuum divorced from history, but wishing has been ineffective. Of course their upper echelon is passionately involved in international commerce.
• geysersam 4y ago
  Modern markets have rules. Such as property rights. Those are invented. There's nothing fundamentally natural about them. Humans engage in every kind of relationship imaginable. No surprise that trade is one of them.
  • monero-xmr 4y ago
    Markets and trading predate any formal type of rules. We have rules in certain markets now but this was not the case for most of history
    • moloch-hai 4y ago
      Literally no markets anywhere, ever, operate without invented rules.