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Originally Posted by Fedorfan
lol, ok then, give me an example of a industry/market where this "actual/real/legitimate" free market that you speak of actually exists. Because I can't think of one, I can only think of degrees of free market and government intervention - but since you said it is a all or nothing thing -"You either have one or you don't", I'd like to see an example.
We can ONLY talk about free markets in terms of degrees because a "pure" free market has never existed and could never exist except in the imagination of mostly privileged, extremely gullible, white males.
So like, for example, for those who study the situation seriously, it's obvious the free(r) market capitalism we see in the third world (which was
imposed on them) has a lot to do with why they ARE the third world. The idea that this is
not a knock against free markets because it's not a
pure form, is just LOLpureSOPHISTRY that allows one the intellectually dishonest luxury of dismissing ANY evidence against free markets. Free market theory thus becomes unfalsifiable just like any other religion, and make no mistake, this IS a religion we're talking about here.
In any serious discussion, however, of course our horribly inefficient free(r) market health care system which delivers lackluster results would be counted as evidence against free market "theory", and maybe then a sort of meta-argument about how strong the evidence is could develop, but only extreme religious zealots would dismiss that evidence out of hand because it's not a perfectly free market. Those type of people are not worth talking to for the same reason it's not worth talking about science with young earth creationists.