Markets may look like democracy, in that we are are involved in their making, but they are fundamentally not democratic. We did not vote for Bill Gates; we didnât all sit down one day and agree that we should only use his operating system and we should pay for it just however much he thinks is right. We do not go off to our jobs checking telephone lines or making cold calls or driving a forklift every morning because this is what we want to do; we do it because we have to, because it is the only way we can afford food, shelter, and medicine. The logic of business is coercion, monopoly, and the destruction of the weak, not âchoiceâ or âserviceâ or universal affluence.
Thomas Frank, One Market Under God (via frankfurtschooldropout)
