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by adamjb 1972 days ago
This is absolutely anarchist and can be placed as part of a long tradition of mutual aid that can be traced back through Kropotkin.

I don't think it's possible to view this as a free market solution unless you want the term "free market" to lose all meaning. The free market does not have a monopoly on rational decision making. Any market is based around exchange, which this project expressedly rejects.
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j2kun 1969 days ago
Not all markets are based around exchange. Kidney exchange markets, for instance, have a component based on a donor giving a kidney for nothing in exchange, starting a chain of kidney donations that could otherwise not occur.

Matching markets are another example that is not based around exchange

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kubanczyk 1972 days ago
It can be traced back to hunter-gatherer populations honestly. So what?

Mutual aid is pretty far away from abolishing the state or abolishing the private ownership of the means of production, which were the bigger ideas of Bakunin and Kropotkin.

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