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So pill will disrupt treatment market, like Red Hat disrupted Unix market. Free market encourages such efficiency.


The problem is that technological disruptions like this pose a threat to the economy as it is organised and run today. In particular, modern economy cannot cope with unemployment. The masses of laid-off people would either have to engage in yet more pointless jobs, or "disrupt" the social order. This is very unlikely to increase efficiency overall.


What's a free market?




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