The sad thing is that nobody realizes that's what they are doing. Someone will say 'we can't do X because the Market says so'. They think they are arguing that a mass of individuals is sending the feedback that a given decision is bad. In reality they are arguing that the needs of the body of society are the needs of whoever owns its production chains and that their needs must be fulfilled. Regardless of also individualized consumer woes. Libertarian Long-termists have invented nothing. They just re-litigate their libertarianism in new ways.
The sad thing is that nobody realizes that's what they are doing. Someone will say 'we can't do X because the Market says so'. They think they are arguing that a mass of individuals is sending the feedback that a given decision is bad. In reality they are arguing that the needs of the body of society are the needs of whoever owns its production chains and that their needs must be fulfilled. Regardless of also individualized consumer woes. Libertarian Long-termists have invented nothing. They just re-litigate their libertarianism in new ways.