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Liberal economists will say this is perfectly fine. They'll say The Market™ has decided and it's never wrong.
It would be true. Except this only works in a genuinely free market. We've not had a really free market for a long time now. The people at the top are just not competing as would be required to make an open and free market work.
Citation needed.
I'm not writing a wikipedia article here[1]. Just writing a comment on what is just an internet forum.
[1] https://kbin.life/m/workreform@lemmy.world/t/588402/CEO-pay-soared-in-2025-20-times-faster-than-workers/comment/7663743#entry-comment-7663743 "just a comment" posted to kbin.life, part of the threadiverse.
I'm calling bullshit on any idea suggesting there was more than 30 seconds of a "really free market" at some point in any modern countries history that could qualify the "we"
Right. I mean I don't know how far back we'd need to go to find a truly free market, possibly before we have the concept of money. I think fair is also too subjective for me to give any real definitive article for too.