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When they say the market is optimal what they really mean is that its logic is comprehensive and all-encompassing, not that it's good. This is a pretty big equivocation. I like markets. But spiritually, a market is quantified existentialism: nihilism + subjectivity + will = $$$
But it's not even that, because there's no mechanism in markets to distinguish authenticity or to weed out bad faith, so fundamentally performance winds up being equivalent to if not superior to authenticity via intersubjective pseudo-consensus.
People converge on strategically useful fakeness and it becomes the coin of the realm. I know this isn't news to anyone paying attention, but it's frustrating.
Vaclav Havel wrote about the challenges of "Living in Truth" under a post-totalitarian regime, but post-totalitarianism is inefficient and suboptimal: So it creates vacuums that can be filled, illicitly or not. Markets are totalizing, but it is not authenticity they totalize.
The libertarian belief in "true markets" is an attempt to rectify concepts of freedom, hence authenticity secondarily, with markets. To a libertarian, a totalized market would axiomatically/exactly correspond to all true demands and preferences as weighted by economic contingency
What's needed instead is an inner sanctum of values, preferences. Since this is impossible, the closest thing is just the proximity of like preferences to like preferences: the path dependencies of exchange need to be configured to allow phenomenal "freedom" to emerge.
But, infinite configurations. Nor is "exit" really possible without leaving orphaned nodes of obligation. Someone always gets shafted. In a simulationist context, you could create combinations where everyone gets shafted and variously doesn't get shafted, but that seems extreme
It might be an NP Hard problem, or completely intractable. I think the proper attitude to this world is really that it's doomed: that anything just, or good, or even just optimal is only possible for the worlds that come from this world. I guess I will work from this premise.
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