Quote Originally Posted by wufwugy View Post
It isn't market behavior to let children freely choose. That's foolishness. Markets are the best of what we have for how adults function. If everybody was a child, markets would likely not work.
At what age do children stop behaving irrationally? At what age do mentally handicapped or idiots? What about people who receive no formal education, or home schooling by idiots? All of these people, and a load of more I can't just now think of still operate on the markets every day, kids included. Let's assume, for argument's sake, that the rest will indeed behave rationally (which I seriously doubt). How is it possible for the markets to "work" with all these people, a significant percentage of the market players, choosing freely?