The end result of a totally free market

submitted by trident765 from self.nonmorons

The end result is that one business or organization will become bigger than the others and will become powerful to the point that it will have control over all the people in the country. That every country has a government is proof of this.

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[–]4chanUser 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You are fundamentally misunderstanding a free market. A free market breaks up monolopies with government intervention, in order to keep the market free. "That every country has a government is proof of this" What are you even trying to say with this? Governments are formed to keep a society civil, controlling the population is part of that.

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periodically need to feed tree of liberty with blood

or in other words trust bust, break up monopolies, prosecute wall st etc

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Some representatives think when the biggest group considers them the lesser evil, they can disregard and oppress all other groups. Some mortals need to be reminded of their mortality.

[–]fschmidt 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

In a totally free market there would be no corporations because this is a creation of the government. This means that there would be no limited liability which means that businesses could not grow so big that management can't control the business enough to avoid liability problems. So in a totally free market, big business wouldn't exist.

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When speaking about free market, it is usually implied that war and slavery are banned. There would be no difference between free and restricted market otherwise, and this term would be useless.

Why would anyone support this? Local free market is good because allowing people do what they like gives them access to positive reinforcement so that they can improve at what they do and earn more money for the rulers. Global free market is good because it allows us to become super specialized and reach god-like levels of efficiency, more efficiency - more wealth.

Why oppose it? Rulers have no obligation to be clever, some people want to temporarily bend the rules to get to the top, others come into power through luck and can't keep it honestly.

Businesses, to keep their power, have to keep serving people. If people refuse to trade, no more power. Unless the state grants them a monopoly.

Governments don't grow by providing services, they either come from the outside and enslave everyone, or are initially formed by the people and grow more corrupt until they become like outsiders and enslave everyone.