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Isn't market failure cost shifting success?

ann li wrote:

Without trying to get into a fight here
about what constitutes failure or
success, I would suggest that sub-optimal
solutions are part of the discourse
semantics of commons theories and that
they are not necessarily "anti-dialectical".


I don't think this is what you mean, but it elicits in me questions such as:

Are you saying that socially sub-optimal allocations should be
acceptable when optimal ones are possible?

Should we accept the waste of human life (even the involved threat to
the biological basis of human life) that results from capitalism
(inequality, markets, etc.) when a socialist alternative is possible?

Is trying to build a better society too much perfectionism (going for
the optimal when sub-optimal is okay)?

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