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I'm not seeing the "market forces" in googamooga's post. Rather I see men with guns (the Russian government) prohibiting hospitals and clinics from purchasing stents. The initiation of force here is quite obviously immoral. I'd like to see less of it on this planet, not more.

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The same thing is present in the other situations. People don't get to pick and choose where and how they work, they have families to feed. The pure ideal market forces you're talking about don't exist, most of this is ran by much more depressing forces, such as the prisoner's dilemma.

I've just brought up collusion, it's a concern for software engineering jobs, look it up. Not pure market forces? Exactly! So why are you assuming the CEO's job and pay are pure market forces?

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