[gernb]

How is that evidence it's efficient and incorruptible?

for one, there's a limited number of stalls. It certainly wouldn't be shocking if whoever bribed the government coordinator the most got one of the stalls or if people the coordinators closest friends got priority access to the stalls etc...

I don't know the ideal solution. It might be more fair if there was a raffle for stalls each week. Instead we see the same people in the same stalls. Curious how a new farmer gets in to the market. Do they offer more money than someone already there?

[wpietri]

Are you trying to claim that farmers' markets are terrible dens of iniquity? If so, please provide data.

[gernb]

No, I'm only trying to claim that a government run farmers market is not incorruptible nor likely would it be any more fair.

Interestingly the link above is not to a government run farmers market. It's to a a government site that then links to a non-government, non-profit organization. So that farmers market is not government run

[wpietri]

Thank goodness you have so energetically attacked the straw man that there is some kind of organization that is incorruptible. We are all richer for it.