Making everyone pay multiple times the price of a fraction of the quality, under condition of compliance with a communist bureaucratic monopoly, isn't making things "free" for anyone except for a growing parasite class. Unaccountability isn't costlessness, but the opposite.
I'm more familiar with industrial history in the XIXth century, where monopolies can be traced directly to government intervention, protectionism, lobbyism, regulatory capture, and even "antitrust".
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As for the XVIIIth, I'd like to see the data. But I'm generally unimpressed by people blaming the free market for the mercantilism of late ancien régime monarchies, or for their general basis of a master race owning and ruling the land by right of conquest.
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While competition may be good for the consumer, will not businesses go out of their way to limit competition, the best they can? Certainly, there has numerous cases of illegal collusion to limit competition in Denmark.
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