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> Can't make profitable bluebarries? Tough shit. Free market right?

Why is this good? Do you not want to have access to a wide array of foods? Isn't it nice to have blueberries? Isn't it good that someone can have a farm as their family business and make it work, agriculturally? Would it somehow be better to just let that land do nothing while we all drink Soylent?

I'm not a free market absolutist. If I was, I'd have no problem with illegal labour or buying from slave labour in some other country. Yes, I am afraid of a completely free market, because I understand the Tragedy of the Commons. It doesn't mean I'm going to flip directions and become an advocate of complete state control of industry.

Your over-the-top rhetoric serves no-one and illustrates no point.

[anigbrowl]

No, I don't want extra choice if it comes at the expense of exploitation. I don't want to waste my time having to assess every product and vendor for ethical quality, I want to know that when I'm purchasing everyday goods and services that I can rely on a certain baseline level of equity across the entire commercial marketplace. It creates economic inefficiency by introducing unwanted information asymmetries into the market that hurt both consumers and labor.