On: Millions snap up new Germany-wide public transit ticket

[ChuckNorris89]

They were at one point, but capitalism said everything needs to make a profit.

[PicassoCTs → ChuckNorris89]

The pyramid scheme grinds to an halt, if it does not. Everything goto join the MLM scheme, or those running the whole affair get a existential crisis.

[HPsquared → PicassoCTs]

Central banking and social security are the MLM schemes. Free markets, if we had them, would rebalance that kind of thing.

[411111111111111 → HPsquared]

Sure, but completely unrestricted free markets would also reintroduce slavery etc. to the modern world.

Free markets are great at reducing inefficiencies in a world in which no participant decides to coordinate with other participants for profit. which obviously doesn't work, just like communism doesnt work at societal scales.