| ▲ | ai-x 2 hours ago | |
In a free market, the content provider is free to put whatever guardrails they feel appropriate. Loginwall, Paywall, CaptchaWall. If you don't like that provider, you are free to pick another. | ||
| ▲ | Eisenstein an hour ago | parent [-] | |
1. Free markets do not exist 2. If free markets did exist they would not conform to the theory that people are using when they think of what free markets are, since people do behave rationally, power dynamics are real, and no consumer can have all of the information needed to make rational decisions even if that information were available 3. The market is providing solutions to its own failures without fixing the underlying failures because it is more profitable this way. Is buying something from a company that mitigates a problem created by the same company actually a free market, or is it just extraction? | ||