Money is just a form of social credit. When governments, monopolies and
all other forms of violent coercion are out of the equation, money is just something people voluntarily give to each other in exchange for goods or services.
What I mean is, your comment reads like you are writing an indictment about our "system," with its problems being money, markets; but then you go on to support this with problems of slave labor, tyrannical regimes.
I see this pattern in comments every day on social media all the time. Criticisizing money, voluntary exchange, markets--what is economic liberalism--but then supporting their criticism with problems of the exact opposite, authoritarianism.
> I see this pattern in comments every day on social media all the time
I think you're reading rather a lot into my post that I didn't write. But one lesson of China is that you can have "money, voluntary exchange, markets" and authoritarianism at the same time. Especially in the context of international trade, where A voluntarily exchanging money for products made by B with the slave labour of C happens a lot.
What happens when marketing products (in this case, sport) to a non-free country with an official nationalist ideology (in this case, China)? The customers voluntarily choose not to give money to products that don't support the Chinese state. That leads to westerners voluntarily choosing to support authoritarianism, so long as it's happening to someone else. All through free exchange.
(I am certainly not offering a solution to any of this!)
Maybe I did read more into your comment than you were intending. However, one part of your comment indicted 'the system we have,' and at the very least, one of the things I was trying to say is we have multiple, competing systems, as you also now are suggesting in this comment.
What I mean is, your comment reads like you are writing an indictment about our "system," with its problems being money, markets; but then you go on to support this with problems of slave labor, tyrannical regimes.
I see this pattern in comments every day on social media all the time. Criticisizing money, voluntary exchange, markets--what is economic liberalism--but then supporting their criticism with problems of the exact opposite, authoritarianism.