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The State vs the Market Paradise
The state is just another context that a market exists in. Economic inequality is one of the main sources of political i e, decision making and inequality. You need kinship and brotherhood in order to maintain equality, and you need equality in order to have liberty. This is why so called libertarian capitalism has a very peculiar definition of liberty. It's like signing a terrible contract out of pure desperation - it puts you in a position of abject servitude. But what's less complicated is the relationship between liberty and inequality which could much more easily be described as 'liberty versus inequality'