Michael wrote,
>Besides, markets are not a lot of fun.
Am I just wrong, perhaps overly romanticizing, if I suggest that markets
can be fun when they are highly contextualized, a small part of an
extensive network of non-market relations? I have fun going to the farmers'
market, seeing people I know, looking at all the food I'm not going to buy
(as well as that I am), talking with people about the harvest,
agro-ecological problems, organic farming, etc., etc. Maybe what's fun
about it is socializing, community, and not the buying and selling per se,
but I'm not sure it can that easily be separated out. Even haggling
(regatear) is fun when it's done in the right way and if people aren't
desperate (i.e. desperately poor).
What do people think?
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