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This post from @MissingThePt brought me back to my 9th grade Civics class:
https://mastodon.social/@MissingThePt/112649562587904467
Our teacher decided that we needed to learn about the virtues of the Free Market, so he devised a special plan: students would own resources in the classroom, and rent them out to other students. Educational!
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He assigned classroom resources at the start of the year by giving us each a fixed budget of imaginary money and holding a single-round silent auction. Each of us could write down a bid on anything in the room, and the winner would get to charge the other students imaginary class money to use it. No pay, no use! Anything in the classroom. Things like chairs or the pencil sharpener, he said.
I wrote down “air.”
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Wow. So did the teacher exempt himself from having to pay for stuff, or was he willing to subject HIMSELF to the free market forces at play, too?
@lonespelunker
Oh, I’ll give you one guess
Heh. Nothing says "Behold the benevolent wisdom of the free market" like "But of course it would cause too many problems if *I* had to work within it, too."