Quote from: StonedEmo on September 07, 2012, 07:02 pmQuote from: LouisCyphre on September 07, 2012, 09:46 amI'm in an agorist marketThe principles behind this and any marketplace is simple human greed, and not agorism. People were greedy before agorism. They will be greedy long after it.Idola fori is a Latin term, coined by Sir Francis Bacon. The term is one of four such "idols" which represent "idols and false notions which are now in possession of the human understanding, and have taken deep root therein, not only so beset men's minds that truth can hardly find entrance, but even after entrance is obtained, they will again in the very instauration of the sciences meet and trouble us, unless men being forewarned of the danger fortify themselves as far as may be against their assaults".Bacon said that there were two basic kinds of Idol of the Market Place:They are either names of things which do not exist (for as there are things left unnamed through lack of observation, so likewise are their names which result from fantastic suppositions and to which nothing in reality corresponds), or they are names of things which exist, but yet confused and ill-defined, and hastily and irregularly derived from realities. Novum Organum, Aphorism LXThe first kind "is more easily expelled, because to get rid of them it is only necessary that all theories should be steadily rejected and dismissed as obsolete."But according to Bacon, "the other class, which springs out of a faulty and unskillful abstraction, is intricate and deeply rooted." This is because it has to do with the way words themselves can guide thinking. Nevertheless, there are "certain degrees of distortion and error. [...] some notions are of necessity a little better than others, in proportion to the greater variety of subjects that fall within the range of the human sense."How many people here read Francis Bacon? How many people here read books on agorism and misinterpreted everything they saw? How many people here read?You're new here so I doubt you've read any of DPR's posts regarding his / her views and ideals, but suffice it to say this market is certainly built around agorist principles.The force that drives a CAPITALISM based marketplace is human greed. This is a marketplace free of regulation where the markets (i.e. the buyers) dictate the prices and not the other way round - thus it is an agorist marketplace, regardless of how you wish to interpret it.I have to ask: do you even know what agorism is? ???