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@sickburnbro @WandererUber @caekislove @PHarrghis @Griffith Consider the hangman paradox; you really shouldn't build on top of "everyone is acting rational and is thinking clearly" to many steps.

The stock market is *not* rational, its allot of dumb money being told that you will play a round in the governments casino to get a slightly lower tax. So they "diversify" and make long term picks, trying to leave the game after playing only a few rounds. This is over all rational, but all further information can be discarded.
@monkyyy @caekislove @Griffith @WandererUber >the drug market is far from an ideal market
That was never my claim and it is irrelevant to my argument.

>the cia is doing shit all the time
They are participants in the market: they make make money in a viable market. They are not some sort of impartial rule setters that producers, traffickers, dealers and users have to follow.

>a better example would be grocery stores and corn syrup products
It's a horrible example of markets not needing the state to function, because the state does make laws to regulate grocery stores and corn syrup