Yeah, it only pays pensions, retirement accounts, provides liquidity for new industries, which then grow and provide jobs, and has been demonstrably one of the best inventions for pulling billions out of poverty and increasing standard of living generation after generation for hundreds of years over hundreds of countries on the planet.

We should outlaw all markets, right?

> Yeah, it only pays pensions, retirement accounts, provides liquidity for new industries, which then grow and provide jobs, and has been demonstrably one of the best inventions for pulling billions out of poverty and increasing standard of living generation after generation for hundreds of years over hundreds of countries on the planet.

What is it doing to feed my family in burundi?

> We should outlaw all markets, right?

Nobody said this, asshole. But how is the market going to correct for western retardation? Any move towards rational allocation of earth's resources will strip the west. Are you willing to argue that the west is worth sacrificing the east?