大多数人认为市场竞争总会产生有效的应对策略，但作者指出某些领域完全无法对免费化互补产品策略做出有效回应。这挑战了市场均衡理论，暗示某些市场结构可能注定无法抵抗这种战略。

大多数人认为市场竞争最终会形成平衡，所有行业都会有相应的竞争策略，但作者指出有些类别从未对免费化策略形成有效回应，这表明市场并非总是自我调节，存在结构性失衡。这一观点挑战了自由市场的完美竞争理论。

// - market driven solutions distort achieving a good life for all - rather, they prioritize meeting the desires of the rich rather than the needs of the poor - investment flows to where money is expected to be made, not necessarily for any form of justice

Rodela, T. T., Tasnim, S., Mazumder, H., Faizah, F., Sultana, A., & Hossain, M. M. (2020). Economic Impacts of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) in Developing Countries [Preprint]. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/wygpk

Same thing in publishing, too. Lots of people say journal costs are inflated & they can run one cheaper. They're right, but there are two considerations: a) in a market economy prices reflect more than just costs. They reflect the economic value, which includes things like brand value, prestige and also, as this & the other posts argue, an inflation due to productivity rising in adjacent market sectors. So the market failures seem to come from a) the difficulty knowing how much something should cost (having comparables and not having too much complexity to understand) and b) too high value ascribed to the status or prestige (which, if understood as a social consensus proxy that reduces the complexity of actually understanding the business & what it's value to the consumer should be, collapses b into a).