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Originally Posted by Cynosure
Freedom does not mean "anything goes", no more than free speech allows a person to yell "Fire! Run for your lives!" in a crowded place just for his twisted amusment, when there really is no fire.
No, what you're describing (and seeming to want to advocate, here) is not so much a free market, as it is a black market.
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Actually, despite the sarcastic reply I made above, I am advocating for a well-regulated, well-balanced form of capitalism. What many in the west (and the US in particular) keep calling for is less government involvement and increasingly freer markets.
My point is that you cannot have a the kind of free markets that many want without strong laws and oversight. Without this sort of oversight what you end up with is corruption like we see in China.
And it is not just a case of "some bad apples" as some would have it. This sort of inbalance is way too systemic to be a few bad apples. What you see in China is what you can expect in the US if they continue to deregulate and take the attitude that, "the marketplace will correct itself".