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In regards to your "what?" question, roachboy means that when it comes to market problems, the right often declares there really is no problem...except when it comes to agitating members of one class against another class.

In regards to your statement about the history of market economies, if you *have* actually taken econ 101 then you should know the definition of a market economy. No, man has not been involved in a market based economy since pre-historic times and it certainly didn't develop when our pre-historic (or anyone else, for that matter) ancestors decided to share or barter (trade) goods. Each of those are distinct economic systems.


Finally, in regards to your bewilderment over how anyone can distinguish sponsorship of NASCAR from sponsorship of the arts, even though he wrote this in his original post so you must have missed it, the main problem is in the fact that NASCAR cars, tools, any merchandise can sustain logos plastered all over them without ruining the aesthetic for most people.

This is the case with all corporate sponsored activities, as far as I know, whether it be cycling, basketball, or even complete stadiums.

Would you have enjoyed your Phantom of the Opera outing as much if Lenovo, Coke, and Toyota logos were plastered all over the actors' clothes?

Also, I don't think the point was that if you aren't exposed to arts in education you won't learn about whether you enjoy them or not! The point was that all of those activities you learned to enjoy later in your life would not have had playwrights or chefs to make the things you want to consume if they hadn't been exposed to them as legitimate career trajectories when they were in school.

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