While I'm glad to see someone writing up critiques of markets and capitalism in language LW will understand, really really incredibly glad in fact ..

Noted!

Not only is politics spiders, this is a simplistic strawman of both positions at once.

Haha - very true. I realized it was a dramatic oversimplification, but I wanted to start by establishing the frame of analyzing a politicized issue from an .. apolitical stance. Thus I decided to equally critique both sides of the political spectrum - in a sentence or two. (or perhaps this is all post-hoc rationalization! And perhaps there is no functional difference.)