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> it's a lot fairer The American system requires people to vote with their feet (freedom of choice of employment) and their wallets (freedom of market choice),
by brodouevencode 3y ago
> it's a lot fairer
The American system requires people to vote with their feet (freedom of choice of employment) and their wallets (freedom of market choice), thereby giving individuals the direct power instead of some bureaucratic entity who may or may not have the individuals' best interests in mind.
- lores 3y agoIf you believe that people who aren't paid half a million to come up with new ways to display ads have meaningful freedom of choice of employment, rather than different flavours of shit sandwiches, I politely suggest you reassess. And if you think consumers, unorganized, have enough information and meaningful alternatives to choose products, and willpower and knowledge to beat professional marketers and a relentlessly hammered in culture, well, I politely suggest you reassess that too. I agree with you in principle - but there is nowhere near power parity between employers and employees, or corporations and consumers, so that's moot until there is.
- brodouevencode 3y agoI fully understand and agree that the assumption of perfect/symmetrical information in an economic system doesn't exist, but it's a lot better than what you seem to suggest, and recently (the past 30 years) has only gotten better.