"The free market will sort it out" the free market sorted out child labour by saying yes please and we had to pass a law.

[daojoan@mastodon.social]

"The free market will sort it out" the free market sorted out child labour by saying yes please and we had to pass a law. That's how the free market sorts things out.

[demi@xeno.glyphpress.com]

@Daojoan
Yeah, everyone thinks the “free market” fixes things, but
1. It doesn’t fix everything
2. Sometimes it takes centuries to get fixed

[kalshann@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan
Slavery; genocide; lethal pollution; zero safety concerns; zero privacy; toxic ingredients; unsafe work environments; wage theft; and on and on...

[nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan The "free market" even did slavery. Actually, no. It still does.

F- the free market.

[taylorsmith@sunny.garden]

@Daojoan “The market” lit the Cuyahoga River on fire ... 14 times!

[aimee@mastodon.nz]

@Daojoan Yep - the free market is, to put it mildly, sociopathic much of time. It has its uses (for some things), but needs appropriate fettering.

[estelle@mstdn.social]

@Daojoan getting into the specifics of how the labor laws were passed, you see further how the free market operates in practice,