Market forces also brought us things like slavery, child labor, and troves of other human rights abuses....
I don't think we can pin either system as being more virtuous or not, we just seem to have more hisotry of centralized corrupt power at this point since thats been the global state of affairs and humanity just started experimenting with alternatives relatively recently that the verdict is still out on. Both approaches have their ups and downs and both approaches need governance to keep their power in check. Which has the higher corruption rate? Who knows.
Centralized systems seem to have a quicker escalation from start to corruption but they also tend to destablize quickly. Meanwhile, decentralized systems seem to still reach a sort of steady state of corruption at some point and seem to be more difficult to destablize (fix) because it's easier to argue the state of the system evolved "fairly" in some way that we can't just fix.
Free market forces ended slavery (as slavery could not compete with free labor).
Child labor used to be necessary for subsistence farming as otherwise everyone would starve. Improving productivity due to free markets ended that, and made it possible for children to not need to work.
Have you ever thought about children in your workplace? In most I'm aware of, they'd be useless and even counterproductive. Child labor is only for the most menial of tasks, and those have long been automated.
I don't think we can pin either system as being more virtuous or not, we just seem to have more hisotry of centralized corrupt power at this point since thats been the global state of affairs and humanity just started experimenting with alternatives relatively recently that the verdict is still out on. Both approaches have their ups and downs and both approaches need governance to keep their power in check. Which has the higher corruption rate? Who knows.
Centralized systems seem to have a quicker escalation from start to corruption but they also tend to destablize quickly. Meanwhile, decentralized systems seem to still reach a sort of steady state of corruption at some point and seem to be more difficult to destablize (fix) because it's easier to argue the state of the system evolved "fairly" in some way that we can't just fix.