Alex GoldmannDemocracy does not require perfect equality, but what it does require is that there be public places and civic occassions, where people from different social backgrounds, from different walks of life share common experiences, can encounter one another, can bump up against one another in the course of everyday life because this is how we learn to negotiate and to abide our differences and this is how we come to care for the common good.
And so the question for markets in the end, is not mainly an economic question, it's really a question about how we want to live together.
Do we want a society where everything is up for sale? Or are there certain moral and civic goods that markets do not honor, and money cannot buy?
~Michael Sandel