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Søren Have @sorenhave@mastodon.nu · Jul 17, 2026
“To fully embrace "revealed preferences" is to observe someone who has just sold their kidney to make rent and exclaim, "Look at this person with a revealed preference for only having one kidney"” 👌🏻🎯 Brilliant piece by @pluralistic@mamot.fr on market theory. https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/16/lucky-orifices/#invisible-hands
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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · Jul 16, 2026
Market theory goes like this: even the best of us can fall prey to selfishness and rationalization, so let's arrange society so that people acting on their most selfish impulses end up producing benefit for all of us. That'll be easier and more reliable than convincing everyone to be more generous. - If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/16/lucky-orifices/#invisible-hands 1/
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