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Alan Jones's avatar

This is why I like Substack. You come across a fascinating article quite outside your field of interest and come away with new ideas

Ian Braithwaite's avatar

Thank you for this educational and morale-boosting account. Of course, what's described can't possibly work in theory, only in practice! :)

Talleyrand's avatar

Good to see credence given to a common sense approach which clearly works effectively in the public interest. How can this approach be studied and spread?

Paul Nicholson's avatar

In the long-term, in any commercial society, there has to be control exercised from a governing body to prevent criminality taking advantage. The only regimes which are able to be disregarded under this requirement are those such as street food vendors that do not accumulate sufficient profit to attract the attention of manipulators.

Cliff Shepherd's avatar

I find this article impersonal in that it appears to disregard the possibility of any trader having a hard life. I suspect there much much poverty hidden in this ad hoc commercial operation which leaves the better off to live their lives contentedly, both financially and morally. and