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    8 months ago

    Indeed. And why did the designers design it? Why did the shippers ship it?

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      8 months ago

      Because they, to pursue their own self interests, have to satisfy a certain need of a certain population (market segmentation). To do this, they must obtain the necessary factors of production, as technology, land, capital and workers.

      But they don’t get those (in a free-market setting) by coercive means (like the State), they have to cooperate with the other agents of the economy, emerging the concepts of division of labor and voluntary exchange.