Baffled by Free Market Capitalism – Written Friday 21st February 2025 (Aged 49)

Baffled by Free Market Capitalism

Free markets and capitalism seem to baffle people —
or at least, they’re an unwelcome surprise.

Jobs go elsewhere.
Cheap labour, cheap wages.
The provider is never the decider.

So then we put people in cages.
People invent a number of ways
which, hopefully, will make the component parts click.

But free markets —
at least for the ordinary person —
are a market that cannot be fixed.

You may think there is a way,
but that’s just a trick.
So there is denial,
an avoidance of the facts.

The reality, though,
stares people in their face.
But the reality is:
people turn their backs,
and continue this bizarre race.

There must be a cheat code,
some kind of hack —
some way of fixing the market,
some way to alter the stack.

But there is no answer.
There is no trick.
Free markets are never free,
and it’s a card game
where you can never stick.

James Garratt – Friday 21st February 2025

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