#freemarket — Public Fediverse posts
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Just in case you were wondering, free-market capitalism was only ever an excuse to push US made products and services on the rest of the world. If profit goes somewhere else, then the US government invokes national security without citing any evidence.
#capitalism #antiCapitalism #freemarket #USpol #nationalSecurity
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Just in case you were wondering, free-market capitalism was only ever an excuse to push US made products and services on the rest of the world. If profit goes somewhere else, then the US government invokes national security without citing any evidence.
#capitalism #antiCapitalism #freemarket #USpol #nationalSecurity
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The move provides fresh evidence of Trump’s intention to transform #GlobalTrade, despite numerous #court challenges & the protests of #US #consumers & businesses that have been stuck with higher #tax bills. Over the past 17 months, the #Trump admin has cycled through #trade #law after trade law as it tries to build a system to shield the US #economy from foreign #competition [it’s called a #FreeMarket, pretty freaking American]
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The move provides fresh evidence of Trump’s intention to transform #GlobalTrade, despite numerous #court challenges & the protests of #US #consumers & businesses that have been stuck with higher #tax bills. Over the past 17 months, the #Trump admin has cycled through #trade #law after trade law as it tries to build a system to shield the US #economy from foreign #competition [it’s called a #FreeMarket, pretty freaking American]
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Everyone should follow Mamdani's lead and get in the habit of mocking Friedrich Hayek and free-market capitalism.
#Socialism #FreeMarket #Capitalism
https://substack.com/@joewrote/note/c-291479374 -
Everyone should follow Mamdani's lead and get in the habit of mocking Friedrich Hayek and free-market capitalism.
#Socialism #FreeMarket #Capitalism
https://substack.com/@joewrote/note/c-291479374 -
Why your fare cost so much, and uber drivers get paid so little:
It is the result of a highly calculated corporate strategy known as surveillance pricing (or algorithmic personalized pricing).
In a genuine free market, prices function as transparent signals shaped by open supply and demand. Both buyers and sellers see the market rate, ensuring fairness. If a business overcharges, consumers walk; if it underpays, workers leave for a competitor.
Surveillance pricing completely subverts this dynamic by weaponizing information asymmetry. Using a massive hoard of data, the platform creates an invisible digital partition between the customer and the service provider. Instead of a shared, transparent marketplace, the algorithm isolates both sides into separate, closed-door negotiations where the platform holds all the cards.
For the passenger: The algorithm calculates the exact upper ceiling of what you will tolerate paying at that specific second—factoring in everything from your immediate location, time of day, and urgency, to your historical behavioral trends.
For the driver: The platform acts as an electronic monopsony (a market with many sellers but only one dominant buyer of labor). It isolates the worker and calculates the absolute structural floor of what that specific driver will accept to keep their car moving. By dangling unpredictable, variable incentives, it extracts hours of uncompensated labor (waiting and idling time), leaving the driver to absorb all the capital risk, vehicle depreciation, and fuel costs.
By blinding both sides of the transaction, the platform acts as a centralized command structure rather than a passive matching service. It systematically strips away the "consumer surplus" (the extra value and savings a buyer gets) and the "producer surplus" (the fair profit a worker keeps) and absorbs that wealth entirely for itself.
This mechanism is profoundly anti-free market because it replaces transparent competition with a proprietary information monopoly. True markets thrive on decentralized, shared knowledge; this system relies entirely on keeping everyone else in the dark.
#SurveillanceCapitalism #GigEconomy #PlatformCapitalism #FreeMarket #Economics #monopsony -
The Party That Screams About The Evils Of Socialism Wants To Nationalize AI Companies
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The Party That Screams About The Evils Of Socialism Wants To Nationalize AI Companies
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the "magic" of #freemarket #economy at work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMG9-0SZIXU if everyone is broke prices have to come down... congratulations into the centers of #power especially the #centralbank and private #banks with your greed and lending only to each other but not to productive #mainsteet #wallstreet ruined it's own #fiat #paper (!) #money #finance system! i wonder how #bankers are going shopping when #wallmart goes out of business #congratulations all involved #cityoflondon #frankfurt #newyork are speculating on a #planetB when the ruined #planetA
this #finance system is DIRECTLY responsible for all #hate on this #planet -
The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't
https://stefan.schueller.net/posts/the-free-market-lie/
#HackerNews #FreeMarket #Lie #Switzerland #Internet #Gbit #America #Technology
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The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't
https://stefan.schueller.net/posts/the-free-market-lie/
#HackerNews #FreeMarket #Lie #Switzerland #Internet #Gbit #America #Technology
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Michigan Lawmakers Want To Ban Chinese-Tagged Vehicles From Even Visiting The State. You Know, For Privacy.
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Michigan Lawmakers Want To Ban Chinese-Tagged Vehicles From Even Visiting The State. You Know, For Privacy.
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This is why the idea is politically charged —
it threatens the myth of the self‑sustaining market. #freemarket #capitalismhttps://survivorliteracy.com/2026/05/30/%f0%9f%92%b5-what-a-universal-living-wage-would-do/
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This is why the idea is politically charged —
it threatens the myth of the self‑sustaining market. #freemarket #capitalismhttps://survivorliteracy.com/2026/05/30/%f0%9f%92%b5-what-a-universal-living-wage-would-do/
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This is not a free market.
It is a state‑supported labor‑extraction economy wrapped in the myth of freedom. -
Democracy cannot survive an excessively free market; and containing the market is the task of politics.
-- Robert Kuttner (NYRB (Dec 2017))⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RobertKuttner #FreeMarket #Politics
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #NewMexico
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Democracy cannot survive an excessively free market; and containing the market is the task of politics.
-- Robert Kuttner (NYRB (Dec 2017))⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RobertKuttner #FreeMarket #Politics
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #NewMexico
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The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't
https://stefan.schueller.net/posts/the-free-market-lie/
#FreeMarket #OpenAccess #Fiber #PointToPoint #NationalStandards
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The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't
https://stefan.schueller.net/posts/the-free-market-lie/
#FreeMarket #OpenAccess #Fiber #PointToPoint #NationalStandards
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Time to challenge anyone who claims to oppose capitalism while still defending the mechanics that create it: competitive market trade, scarcity exploitation, and private gain as the organizing principle of society.
#politics #markets #libertarian #freemarket #economics #intergral -
Time to challenge anyone who claims to oppose capitalism while still defending the mechanics that create it: competitive market trade, scarcity exploitation, and private gain as the organizing principle of society.
#politics #markets #libertarian #freemarket #economics #intergral -
Is self-regulated free market forces not a contradiction in terms? 🤔
The free part implies that it is by definition not regulated...@philosophy @psychology
@[email protected] @[email protected] @aiop#Thinking #Meme #Memes #FreeMarket #Regulation #Polluting #Pollution
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ICYMI - PERRY: Aurora wants better businesses on the East Colfax corridor. Better pay up
'If you really want to reduce crime, start with increased and very, very visible police patrol, lighting, design and consistent enforcement'
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ICYMI - PERRY: Aurora wants better businesses on the East Colfax corridor. Better pay up
'If you really want to reduce crime, start with increased and very, very visible police patrol, lighting, design and consistent enforcement'
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ICYMI - PERRY: Aurora wants better businesses on the East Colfax corridor. Better pay up
'If you really want to reduce crime, start with increased and very, very visible police patrol, lighting, design and consistent enforcement'
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ICYMI - PERRY: Aurora wants better businesses on the East Colfax corridor. Better pay up
'If you really want to reduce crime, start with increased and very, very visible police patrol, lighting, design and consistent enforcement'
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Turns Out That Advertisers Not Wanting To Fund Neo-Nazi-Adjacent Content Isn’t An Antitrust Violation
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Turns Out That Advertisers Not Wanting To Fund Neo-Nazi-Adjacent Content Isn’t An Antitrust Violation
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PERRY: Aurora wants better businesses on the East Colfax corridor. Better pay up
'If you really want to reduce crime, start with increased and very, very visible police patrol, lighting, design and consistent enforcement'
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PERRY: Aurora wants better businesses on the East Colfax corridor. Better pay up
'If you really want to reduce crime, start with increased and very, very visible police patrol, lighting, design and consistent enforcement'
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a "good" #example how the #magic #hand of #freemarket of #capitalism will solve all problems: #fertilizer #prices have doubled since the #trumpet and allies decided to invade another country #iran this will drive up #food #prices and when we all starve you can say "thank you free market of #neoliberalism that you killed everyone on this #planet " #hurray
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Wed Feb 11 and Thurs Feb 12, 2026
St. Lawrence Market Tent, the Esplanade and Market Street."The #SLNA #WasteReduction Group is holding its 15th REmarket, a two day event for #donations, #recycling services, & limited household #HazardousWaste drop offs.
A totally free market (#FreeMarket) will also be held on February 11 only. Guests can donate and/or take items for free (not for commercial resale). Bring your own bag.
On February 12, #RepairCaféToronto will be fixing clothing, jewellery, computers, home electronics, small appliances, housewares, and toys, while #CultureLInk #BikeHub will be doing small bike repairs and safety check.
NEW THIS TIME- they are collecting metal keys, and wooden chopsticks."
Source:
https://www.woodsworthcoop.ca/index.php/remarket-wed-feb-11-and-thurs-feb-12-2026/Full event details and guidelines can be found at
https://www.slna.ca/remarket-guidelines.html#SolarPunkSunday #TorontoCanada #ReduceReuseRepair #RepairCafe #Swap #CircularEconomy #ZeroWaste #Recycling #Reuse #BuildingCommunity #HouseholdHazardousWaste #WasteDisposal
