It doesn't matter. Gold is more abundant than science and culture, so you naturally you need more of it for happiness reduction, because of median calculation.Markets give 3 yields, whereas most early buildings give 1 or 2, and that's unhappiness cares about. Now you wouldn't think that would make a big difference in unhappiness, but like I said earlier, I've been consistently surprised how much it does.
You never see a monument as a way to combat boredom, because you build it anyway as a 1st (maybe 2nd) building. Way before market for sure.
So if the main role of markets is to combat reduction and as a prequisite to other gold buildings, then sure it's just worse than monument, amfitheater, council and library, because these also do that, but on top of that provide way more valuable yields. 2 culture vs 3 gold? Come on.
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