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WalterBrighttoday at 7:07 AM2 repliesview on HN

> selfish ambitions for power or money

Free markets are designed around a selfish ambition for making money. You can only make money by pleasing your customers. And hence free markets are the greatest mechanism for prosperity.

There's nothing wrong with making money that way.


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scnstoday at 10:22 AM

> You can only make money by pleasing your customers.

Are you sure?

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vkoutoday at 7:16 AM

How well do free markets resolve basic problems of resource distribution?

Like, say, the tragedy of the commons?

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