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		saila on July 29, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Americans' plastic recycling is dumped in landfill... It sounds like you’re saying that regulation, not an unrestrained free market, could solve this problem.

stuaxo on July 29, 2019 [–]

Indeed, the idea of a free market is a myth.

Markets only function because there are rules, we just argue about what they should be.

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