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by sukilot 2186 days ago
I'd say social democracy has done more.

It's easy to tally up the greatness of the free market when you redefinento boundaries of society to exclude the huge negative costs imposed on slaves and laborers.

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> exclude the huge negative costs imposed on slaves

What slaves? That was a century ago.

Slavery is not a free market system.
Um... I agree the word "free" is misleading but once you're in a legal system that condones slavery then of course it would be a free market. I'm having a hard time imagining the slave trade arising without a market much more free than the people forced through it.

Markets are amoral. That's why we shouldn't rely on them to solve social problems.

A free market is one where transactions take place absent fraud or force.

Slavery doesn't remotely qualify.