[tdb7893]

I had an argument with people the other day that it's not "free" as in unregulated markets that are good but "free" as in competitive ones. If you free a market from governmental influence but captured by private companies that don't meaningfully compete then it's also not free.

[noobermin]

There really are few people nowadays who are for truly competitive markets, other than lay people. I feel like every large so-called probusiness group or politician really is for monopolistic corporate rule of life and the market, they only gesture towards the free market ethos as an ideological commitment but not one they really truly believe in.