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> Having a market based system for a necessity, especially when the market is allowed to get as incredibly distorted as it has (in the US and Western Europe), is a moral travesty

Markets for food work pretty well. And for loans.

Markets are pretty efficient. That doesn’t mean you don’t regulate them.




> Markets for food work pretty well.

Please look up how much subsidy is given to the American farmers. It's probably more than you think it is.

> And for loans.

Might have agreed more with you, but then 2008 happened.




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