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 = $$$
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
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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.
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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
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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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