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It's so refreshing to just hear someone say exactly that. (Shouldn't this be obvious to everyone?)

    (Shouldn't this be obvious to everyone?)

I feel like everybody understands this deep down inside, but free market fanatics have some major insecurity issues and are simply afraid to admit that maybe they can't be experts in literally every category of consumer product

Also they skipped history class and are unfamiliar with all of the toxic and disgusting shit companies used to adulterate their food and medicine with

> [...] and are simply afraid to admit that maybe they can't be experts in literally every category of consumer product

But bureaucrats are?

When people make the first half of this argument, as they do readily do, and omit this second half, you can use that as a heuristic for "unserious"

Experts exist.

If you think it's impossible or merely undesirable for a society to have experts in public employ working for the greater good then... okay. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm certainly not going to change your ingrained beliefs. But hopefully you can learn to understand others' views. What I'm seeing is the typical tendency to misrepresent others' beliefs as some sort of all-encompassing faith in "bureaucrats." Wrong.

Markets are useful and proven tools. So are rules.

Both of them have proven inadequate on their own.

(Just FYI, one could interpret your comment in totally opposite ways, as it’s unclear what argument you’re referring to.)

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