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You are an innocent believer in the fairness (or efficiency) of an unfettered free market, which is, today, obviously wrong. It's called "Market Fundamentalism" in the field of economics, and hasn't been an accepted ideal since the 70s. Educating you is beyond the scope of a Hacker News discussion, but I strongly advise this book should you wish to expand knowledge: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674050716

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That's personal and supercilious, and therefore uncivil. Please don't post comments like that here, even when someone else is wrong.

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And I could give you plenty of books arguing the opposite. This is isn't a solved argument.

I'm well read around economics. Most of solutions involve government intervention, which involves blind faith in the state as well as the market.

A classic condescending tone you will only find on the internet.

When someone is so obviously wrong, there are only three possibilities:

1) Ignorance and no desire to learn;

2) Ignorance and desire to learn;

3) Trolling

My answer stops the discussion, avoiding 3, without leaving possibility 2 without response. If it is case 1, any answer is moot.

Sorry if I sounded too aggressive. Aggression is unintended, even if somewhat unavoidable when skirting possible trolling.

You are being so aggressive. The fact that you are assuming your answers are right, when in reality no one has certain answers. I could point out 1000 books pointing out the opposite. Are you refusing learn and to open your mind to other possibilities? Running to the government to fix things is the simplistic option which your average person runs to. I'm trying to point out that this isn't a good option in a lot of cases.

I think this means you have ran out of arguments.

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