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RE: Karl Marx Didn't Understand Human Nature And Communism is a Lie
Weighing in here as the comparison in scaling ability is interesting.
I think that whilst communism can't practically scale up it presumes to systematize the totality of social organizations, meaning it must engulf the entire gamut of human life from the individual all the way on up to the societal, and even global, level. And that contradiction obviously factors in its breakdown.
The free market on the other hand does not scale down well. But does not presume to. Its principle is that the market arbitrates with the best practical effect on the whole. It does not work well on an individual basis, but it allows for ad hoc correction because it doesn't dictate conduct or policy, unlike communism.
The free market on the other hand does not scale down well
That is incorrect.
the Free market works perfectly well as P2P, bartering for a chicken for example, or buying/selling Steem on BlockTrades.
the fly in the ointment is when someone (government) trys to regulate it.
I disagree. You're right about your examples.
But it is at 3 people that interaction becomes society. Between 2 people that's intimacy, which is much, much less complex.
The point is that the results at the higher level are worse when you step down to the lower levels.