"Free markets are good" is, ironically, a position almost exclusively espoused by people trying their best to establish/continue monopolies and destroy the free market
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Markets that are fundamentally free, but constrained by socially responsible laws (like we are) have been the engine room of modern human progress. They have almost never* been entirely free. And utter totalitarianism is all but extinct. Free markets deserve a lot of credit.
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*You could argue that the imperial age had regions of the world dominated by private empire, eg. Dutch East India Company, that were effectively ruled by a free market. But as much you could claim these were in fact regional monopolies.
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