RE: https://mastodon.online/@billyjoebowers/117396887652099048

Markets are great, but we have this idea that they are a natural phenomenon that appear like mushrooms fully formed whenever two men need to transact their cabbages and copper ore.

No.
Markets are artificial.
Markets are maintained
Markets have owners
Market owners have immense power

The governmental flight from ownership begun in the 1980s is nothing more than a flight from responsibility, from maintenance, from work, from having to make decisions. And it shows in this: Markets.