The underlying idea that people can only ever seek to undercut is a problem of non-starter proportions, and also, refreshingly, just not correct.

Yeah, I sometimes wonder if it’s even worth engaging on the grounds of like “Okay, by your own market-based logic, this situation makes no sense and a more cooperative approach would be more profitable to all” when we know for a fact that the “tragedy of the commons” is bullshit and we don’t actually need markets to mediate vital resource allocation.

Sometimes it seems easiest to push on the ways that the capitalist delusion is self-defeating, but other times it feels like why even bother indulging?

Also, the rest of your comment reminded me of this quote:

A moment’s thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.