If only we had some way to determine fair prices for services and goods? Perhaps an area or forum in which people could buy or sell their wares unfettered? You know like a free market...

Really?! This is a particularly clever form of the “why don’t you poor, slovenly people just pull yourself up from the bootstraps” argument (with the caveat that the person in question has never, of course, pulled themselves up by any bootstraps). You must’ve been on the pier in Havana telling the folks from the MS…