In a market economy, competition is supposed to drive innovation and efficiency. But think about what competition really means: If I win, you lose. In school, it means hiding your answers. In business, it means guarding your ideas. Even if collaboration would help everyone,

Markets create the very problems we expect them to solve. Inequality, burnout, ecological collapse—they're not bugs, they’re features. Here’s why reforms fail—and what kind of economy might actually work. 👉 chrisagnos.substack.com/p/why-markets-…

Markets call ownership efficient. But in practice, it means every person needs their own version of everything. One drill for every house. One car for every adult. One of everything—used occasionally, idle most of the time. To meet this demand, we overproduce. We mine more, build

We have been taught that the only way to live a modern life is through market economies. Work a job. Specialize. Earn money. Buy everything you need. Step outside of that, we are told, and your only option is isolation and subsistence farming. But that is a false choice. We do

Markets turn survival into a competition. They reward profit even when it comes at the cost of human and planetary well-being, and turn scarcity and crisis into engines of growth. In theory, markets meet needs. In practice, they only meet needs when someone can pay — and only

We do not have a shortage of food, housing, tools, or knowledge. We have a shortage of access. Markets force us to compete for survival, turn shared abundance into private property, and deny access to those who cannot pay. The People's Library is different. It is a local,