markets & profit maximization

[Justin Schwartz]

>
>Enormous amounts of resources are spent to market products that are
>essentially identical.  Maybe you don't get phone calls from the phone
>companies ....
>

Is that a reason to abolish markets? There is nothing wrong with price 
competition for identical products. And this economic objection does not go 
to my moral/practical objection that I don't want my neighbors or fellow 
cituzens to democratically discuss my tastes in, e.g., Hayekian economics, 
highly spiced food, bondage and domination equipment, etc. There is a 
positive moral value to the anonymity of the market. jks

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