An excellent article and analysis, Benjamin. But you did not delve deep enough into the free market and the political system.
No free market exists that is truly open to all in equal manners. People need to know that something is for sale, for instance, they need to know about what they can buy. As such, information is a major hurdle in the free market.
You also made a remark about democracy, as if all forms of democracy are the same. When talking about equality, then one version has equality guaranteed in the voting process only, and the other version has equality guaranteed all the way to the outcome.
I hope you see why a free market must have all its doors open to let information go out to all so all can influence the working of the free market equally.
I hope you see that any obstruction to getting the representative one truly wants automatically makes that form of democracy based on unequal grounds.
"By giving each voter equal political power..."
Please improve on that sentence because depending on the voting system in place you are either telling the truth or you are lying. In the USA, the voters do not have equal political power. They are segregated in districts first, and then declared each other’s equals, and then there is just one person who gets the seat. That is not the same as voters being represented equally.
Perhaps that should be the subject matter of your next article. How some forms of democracy are enlightened and truly free and equal, and other forms of democracy incorporate the rule of the jungle. After all, in the USA, we still vote like they did in Britain many centuries ago. Other nations became modern nations in their voting system, but Britain and the USA did not.
