Comments on: Why is the free market letting us down? http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/archives/2008/12/15/why-is-the-free-market-letting-us-down/ Computer Science researcher and Open Scholar: Web, OLAP, Databases, Time Series, Collaborative Filtering, Information Retrieval, e-Learning. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:44:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: CW http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/archives/2008/12/15/why-is-the-free-market-letting-us-down/comment-page-1/#comment-50505 CW Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:34:30 +0000 http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/?p=1630#comment-50505 The free market is letting us down <em>relative to its own marketing of its benefits</em>. It's only after it screws up that free market fanatics say "we never promised you a rose garden, chump". <b>Solution</b>: Treat the marketing like the self-justifying bullshit it is. Be relentlessly alert and skeptical. The free market is letting us down relative to its own marketing of its benefits. It’s only after it screws up that free market fanatics say “we never promised you a rose garden, chump”.

Solution: Treat the marketing like the self-justifying bullshit it is. Be relentlessly alert and skeptical.

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