Errr... Studi, as sworn JKGalbraithist, I wholeheartedly agree with you. I was being heavily sarcastic when describing market forces as being anything more than ideological construct. Being based in the wonderful land of Postocommunismia, it's easy for me to be cynical as we have been shafted in the name of the inevitable progress on the path marked by Marx-Engels-Lenin and then shafted again in the same manner, by the same people in the name of the democracy and free market.
Also I am too painfully aware what it means to have ineffective union.