So long as there is contention for a finite resource the market always exists. If you don't pay with cash, you pay with something else that has value - your time.
That's unfortunately not a choice that can be made either way. If something has demand, can be bought and sold, and has value, there is inherently an economic market for it.
The entire reason markets exist is so people can exchange what they don't want for things that they do want. For the purpose of this discussion, they are fungible.
The only decision the market is allowed to make is “do I buy this, yes or no?” It (you) doesn’t get to change the rules whenever it feels like it when you don’t feel like paying for something.
"The market doesn't pay for effort, it pays for things people want."
The problem is that people still want the the product as much as they ever did, but they've discovered that they can always get it without paying a penny. The producer produces and the consumer consumes but the producer is not compensated. That's not a market.
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