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#4647·Dennis Hackethal, 4 days agoCoercion in the economy is when a trade happens even though the price would otherwise be too high for at least one of the parties involved.
If emotions are price signals in the mind, maybe bad emotions signal a high price. Coercing yourself to do something you don’t want to do then means to disregard that high price and do the thing anyway. You pay a high price you wouldn’t otherwise pay. Similar to coercion in the economy.
Is there a universal evil at work in both coercive economies and coercive minds? A kind of socialism of the mind?
Coercion in the economy is when a trade happens even though the price would otherwise be too high for at least one of the parties involved.
But coercion is also when a trade is forced NOT to happen even though it otherwise would have happened. Like outlawing certain types of trade through minimum-wage laws.