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The predictable end game of unregulated free markets is the opposite of freedom for 99.99% of the population.

There's a curious authoritarian tinge to these "free market" argument. "Free markets are powerful, therefore if I support free markets I am a powerful insider."

It usually takes an encounter with a major economic reverse - like being bankrupted by healthcare - for proponents to realise that the free market doesn't care about them either, no matter what they believe.



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