• jaspersgroove@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    Tomato, tomato. The free market is a myth, there is no part of the economy that goes without manipulation. Anytime business owners can’t directly manipulate the market themselves they bribe governments to do it on their behalf.

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      6 months ago

      I don’t think anyone is arguing that a pure free market exists.

      Having a capitalist economy doesn’t mean that you have a pure free market anyway.

      Although there are libertarians that would like to have a free market like that, every capitalist economy has regulations in place in an attempt to prevent monopolies and/or businesses having too much power in one area.