Market choice is a sham homologous to parliamentary democracy

Evidence

Meanwhile, on its general use, market as a concept rarely has anything to do with choice or freedom, since those are all determined for us in advance, whether we are talking about new model cars, toys, or television programs: we select among those, no doubt, but we can scarcely be said to have a say in actually choosing any of them. Thus the homology with freedom is at best a homology with parliamentary democracy of our representative type. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 583

Categorization

• SEED: Angle for an essay: consumer ‘choice’ among predetermined options as the economic analogue of voting within a two-party system — both are selection without real say.
• XREF: connects to: Neoliberal deregulation erodes democracy as politics abdicates to market pressure — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 81