The Free-Market! . . . wut's 'free' about it?
Yes; the great so-called "free market" ... where the rich are *free* to oppress, despise, abuse, enslave, humiliate, disposes, cheat, rob, steal ... and sodomize the poor to their evil-hearts content!
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So am I really the only one who refuses to be brain-washed by the absurd capitalist-propaganda that would have us all believe that the free-market is good for everyone?
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Answer:
Free Market means that anyone can bring a service or product and sell it. Free Market means that a consumer can choose between competing services and products, and decide which one to purchase.
Free Market lives in between Laissez-faire (anything goes; the capitalism that the question poster believes we live under) and a completely Regulated market (like Former Communist Russia).
The government's job is to balance the free market in between Laissez-faire and complete regulation... right now they're doing a horrible job at it.
But, you DO get to choose services and products. You CAN bring a service or product to market. And "the Capitalists" can't put sewage in a can and force you to buy it.
There are patents and monopolies. Those do NOT belong in a real Free Market. Patents are too much on the regulation side. Monopolies are too much on the Laissez-faire side. Get rid of both and things would be better :D
That and "supply and demand" are the two basic fairy tales that are supposed to satisfy you, and do many.
I'm pretty sure sodomy has nothing to do with it.
It's a free market, because you are able to select the product you wish to buy and if you think that you are being forced into a purchase, you have the choice to say "No!" It truly is a free market in most items.
The US Postal service is not a free market, because you don't have a choice. It's mandated by the US Government that you must use this system for mailing letters despite its poor performance. However, in truth, you don't have to mail letters. We at least have the internet for most communications.
As for being brainwashed. You have a choice as to what you believe and what you don't. No one can brainwash you.
Please put this question into "politics," where it belongs.
A lot of people who talk "free market" don't know it really means. In the old days (like late Middle Ages) if the count or someone like that was going to hold a "free market" it meant he was going to make sure that people could sell basically whatever they wanted to at whatever price they wanted to charge. And that would be for just one day, usually a holiday of some sort. Economists picked up the idea of "free market" and abused it endlessly until everyone forgot where the idea came from. There is no free market unless there is a sponsor who goes to some trouble to make sure it stays free. And when the government is controlled by the rich and powerful there is no free market because the rich and powerful really don't want you competing with them.
You are indeed free to not participate in the free market, if you wish.
You can go to a farm in the boonies and become self-sufficient. You can refuse to buy anything, grow your own food, etc. And by the way that also means not paying your ISP.
There are many countries in the world where there's no free market. Free market is just a dream. If you don't like the free market, then think about how you would live your life in a country without the free market. How would you live in Russia or Cuba, for example? What would you do? What would be your occupation? Where would you live? Would you be living in a house, or would you be a homeless person?
Think about it really seriously. The reason why America is so blessed is because of freedom.
"The degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity." -- Ayn Rand
"Underlying most arguments against a free market is a
lack of belief in freedom itself" -- Milton Friedman
"The nations of the world are divided into the 'haves' and the 'have-nots.' Observe that the 'haves' are those who have freedom, and that it is freedom that the 'have-nots' have not."
-- Ayn Rand
"If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled."
-- Ayn Rand
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