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"However if you have a free market and the people are propagandized, or the culture is fukked up then can people make effective choices? can markets overcome lies and deceit? "
No, free markets can't make up the difference when the information gulf is so wide.
The money that large companies have mean they can control the message about their product, suppressing dissent in the process. This will also be done via the free market in the form of ads (more $ = better ad coverage = wider message acceptance).
This is one of the ways big companies get big. More money means more power. More power means the ability to make more money. Rinse and repeat.
So how else does a society stop this cycle other than regulation. And yes, like anything else in life, if regulation is not tempered with moderation, it will get out of hand. But saying that everyone is informed enough, or even WILLING to be informed enough, to effectively vote with their pocket books is unrealistically hopeful- In a free society. people generally get what they deserve so to speak. because the responsibility for anything that happens is on them.yurimon
- happens is in society in legislative form or market is on them.yurimon
- this absolutely contradits your assertion that information can be presented to deceive consumerslocustsloth
- there are overwhelmingly more instances where people don't get what they deserve, than do that it is a ridiculous assertionlocustsloth
- I dont see how it contradicts information can be false, people do make assumptions but truth is out there also.yurimon
- when i say deserve I dont mean karmic or if someone is a nice person. I mean cause and effect. Actions have effects whether informed or ignorant..yurimon
- The consequences that follow bad choices. it not like there is no opportunity to reverse anythingyurimon
- Yuri lives in a world where there are no accidents, no disease, no natural disasters. I mean, otherwise his "liberty" idea falls apart.aaux
- ideology falls apart massively.aaux