There are no free markets. Never can be in reality, and today less than ever.
Why are stock markets open 8 hours a day and not always open? Control. Why do we have a federal reserve in the u.s., which was opposed by all the enlightened thinkers supporting freedom? Control. Why are our IRAs and 401-Ks focused on investing in world consuming corporations that don't help citizens, labor, or ecology? Control.
Currencies are competing and warring systems, they are power tokens, they are backed by guns and taxes. What are debts? Debts are the legacy of indentured systems, shackles and control. A debt means someone owns you. It means you are not free.
Why can corporations spend unlimited amounts in politics? Corporations are not people, but legally defined as such currently. It's insanity, it's corruption. That is not democracy, that is fascism, that is money decides who is in charge, that is oligarchy.
Why do we pay to be educated and to have healthcare. Why do we eat junk food. Why is the air and water toxic. Because we are told to worship money as the solution of civilization.
It's bondage. We live in a world of bondage supervised by guns and financialized systems of servitude.
Culture. Art. Science. Trades. Crafts. That is reality.
Centralization means control. Centralization is control. Military. Money. Laws.
The world had 1 billion people recently, now nearing 10 billion.
People only live 70 years, it's hard for them to learn things in that time unless the society is focused. What do we want for the future?
Control, unbalanced, ultimately leads to death, like a suffocating squeeze.
@clumsysilverdad