I am not happy about 'market economics' though sm. People who produce things are getting screwed over (whether it's literature, milk, or chairs they produce), the only people making money are those exploiting others.
I don't like that world. If I want milk, surely I should be paying what it costs to produce, plus something for the farmer's time. If I want a chair, I need to be paying for the cost of the materials, the woodturner's time, the designer's time, the time/expenses of the person that has shipped that?
I know publishing companies artificially price books, but I don't think it's right (morally I mean) to always want things at a reduced price, because someone is being penalised somewhere down the line for that 'saving'.
It would be very easy for me to put the plight of workers on zero-hour contracts, working thought agencies, laid off after 2 months and 28 days so they are constantly denied employment rights, out of my mind- it will not affect me, as I am well-educated, well-remunerated for the specialist role I carry out, I am not likely to be in the situation of being forced to take a zero-hour contract, nor are my family. I cannot however. Because it is wrong that people are treated in this manner, that they are subservient to others, denied rights that others enjoy as a matter of course. So that consumers can have 'cheap' products, and companies can make huge profits. Profits that they do not pay tax on, and thus do not benefit the countries and the populations of the countries in which they operate.
But having read the OP again, how ironic that we are all sitting discussing this online! 