Free Market Failures
Comments debate the limitations and failures of free markets in solving societal problems, often sarcastically questioning claims that markets can handle everything.
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The market cannot solve all problems.
Yet another case where letting the free market handle things results in bad outcomes.
Wait, I thought the free market would solve everything! /s
Can't the free market sort that out?
It seems like the free market created the problem we're trying to solve here.
Just goes to show that free markets aren't always the best for the citizens of a country.
Somehow the free market is failing us here. Not sure how to diagnose this.
citation needed. Why do "we know" that markets can't solve these issues?
What market failure are you seeing here?
But then we wouldn't be applying the invisible hand of the market to fix things!