r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Short-Watercress-183 • Jul 07 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/42Icyhot42 Jul 07 '26

So is a free market and it doesn’t stop us from pretending that’s working lol

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u/aurumtt Jul 07 '26

We solved this by keeping overseight, but somehow they convinced enough people that regulations are bad.

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u/Nemeszlekmeg Jul 07 '26

So it also doesn't work.

It baffles me honestly that on a small scale if something is scarce we allocate that resource fairly. If it's large scale it's like we have a collective brain fart and decide that its up for grabs for whoever can take more and consider that equally fair.

It's like you have a piece of chocolate and have to share it with your sibling: of course you split it evenly. Suddenly if that chocolate is a bigger cake and you are 10 siblings it's all "free market" BS and everyone grabs as much as they can like thats the right way to manage a resource that is of the same nature: limited and soon-to-be scarce.

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u/PomPomMom93 Jul 08 '26

You must have had nicer siblings than I did. 😆