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Old 12-15-2010, 05:53 PM   #199 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by loquitur View Post
the free market principle I was talking about is that people will generally find a way to do what they want to do, despite efforts by their "betters" to stop them. Human ingenuity is the great driver of free markets.
I'd say that it's more a characteristic of most successful instances of life than it is a free market principle.

Besides, free markets don't actually exist and in reality-based markets, human ingenuity can be just as much a liability as a blessing. Human ingenuity is arguably responsible for the financial sector shenanigans which brought our economy to its knees.
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