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Price Signals as Information Aggregators

In a free market, prices serve as signals that aggregate and convey vast amounts of information about supply and demand. These signals are generated through the interactions of numerous individuals and firms, each acting on their own local knowledge and preferences. This decentralized process allows for a more accurate and dynamic reflection of market conditions than any centralized committee could achieve

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Very interesting ... that Big Pharma -- an industry that thrives on the very "free market" principles Sid is so much in favor of -- has been roundly CRITICIZED AND VILLIFIED by none other than Sid Belzberg, all based on alleged transgressions that are BASED ON THOSE VERY "FREE MARKET" PRINCIPLES!!!

The hypocrisy is just ooooozing all over your face like eggs, SID BELZBURP.


First, let it be known there is no such thing as a "free market". That nomenclature has been debunked. It was invented to make markets seem like liberators of humans from enslavement misery, when they are no such thing. If anything, there has been MORE enslavement of humans due to 'free markets" than from any other single influence.

Second, the world cannot survive based on a stock market mentality. Allocating resources based solely on supply and demand leads to existential problems, as we have seen from the Industrial Revolution onwards, where we have the explosive growth of fossil fuels and the rape of the planet Earth (destruction of Amazon rainforest a prime example) leading to disaster after disaster around the planet. We have had decades of unparalleled expansion of national economies, only to realize that we are just creating NEW AND MORE INSIDIOUS forms of human misery.

Thirdly, this stock market mentality leads to an ever-widening gap between the few and shrinking numbers of wealthy controllers accumulating more and more reserves for themselves, and the growing base of impoverished human slaves working to serve the wealthy masters. The spin of "free markets" is increasingly less palatable to those who toil for their masters.

This is all excused by the very people who sit at the controls. The Donald Trumps of the world who can declare bankruptcy so as not to pay their contractors, and shrug it off with "That makes me smart" comments.

Sid Belzburp, Dilip Panjwani, Vlad Drukelec, Neil Frarey, Donald Trump, Elon Musk ... either rich or wannabe rich, and all willing to see you the slave class working in increasingly deplorable conditions, for shrinking rewards, so that THEY accumulate more and more for themselves.

This is the truth of the stock market mentality.

NOT free market, STOCK MARKET.

Supply and demand used as a guiding principle leads to COAL-FUELED POWER PLANTS, OIL SPILLS, BURSTING PIPELINES, GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE DISASTERS, DRUG AND ALCOHOL ADDICTIONS (readily supplied even by governments), MENTAL HEALTH DETERIORATION, PANDEMICS, VACCINES ....

Yeah, Sid, vaccines, the very ones you are so DEAD-SET AGAINST .... created by your supply and demand forces....

Such moronic thinking..... such hyprocrisy .... egg all over your face SID BELZBURP .....

The one thing we can agree on is that centralized planning is the opposite extreme that also doesn't lead to anything good.

Maybe with the advent of AI we can hope someday for an AI political infrastructure ... no more human politicians, no more elections ... just an AI that is programmed to deliver the most benefit for ALL members of the human race ... meaning that there would be some stock market influences, but it would all be regulated by what is good for the species as a whole, rather than what is good for the wealthy masters ... regulated in the sense of wealth limitations, minimizing harm to environment, minimizing harm to mental health, etc.

I think this is what the writers of sci fi shows like Star Trek Next Generation, set in the 24th century, alluded to in their descriptions of human political evolution....

The wealthy and wealthy wannabes would DEFINITELY be against such an idea .... what's in it for them? That's all they care about.

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(# 23 – Not old USSR-style Communism)




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Democratic Marxism Discussion Paper # 23

Democratic Marxism - Not old USSR-style Communism

Tom Wetzel Contribution to Quora - 24/7/14

·Author of Overcoming Capitalism

“Would Karl Marx have been appalled by 21st century communism?

Marx would have been disappointed — especially as it was done in his name. He was a radical democrat and an advocate for workers gaining power in society through their own movement. If you read “The Civil War in France” you’ll notice he praised the highly democratic methods of the French rebels — electing a new city council as delegates from neighborhood assemblies, and restricting officials to a worker’s wage. He expected that communism would look like a society wide worker cooperative.

With a corporate-style top down managerial hierarchy to which workers were utterly subordinate in the USSR, this was contrary to his democratic aims, and he would see right away the working class was still subordinate to an oppressor class. So “the self-emancipation of the working class” that he advocated had not come about.”

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... electing a new city council as delegates from neighborhood assemblies, and restricting officials to a worker’s wage. He expected that communism would look like a society wide worker cooperative.

With a corporate-style top down managerial hierarchy to which workers were utterly subordinate in the USSR, this was contrary to his democratic aims, and he would see right away the working class was still subordinate to an oppressor class. So “the self-emancipation of the working class” that he advocated had not come about.”

What do you think of this analysis?

The only way this sort of worker emancipation can come about is by the 'circles within circles' organization of society, by Libertarianism and easy access to capital for the workers.... definitely not by stealing away money from the hard and smart working...