The "free market" is, and always has been, an ideology that ignores all the ways that "free markets" depend entirely on government: spending, courts, monetary systems, physical infrastructure, enforcement of rules, opening and retaining markets, etc. It's a myth.
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Larry Glickman
Has Bezos studied American history at all? Does he know anything about federal subsidies for railroad and canals? Does he understand the enormous government role in the creation of the Internet? There has been no point when "freedom in the economic realm" existed in the form of pure "free markets."
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