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@freemo but that there would indeed be a market proves my point.

You say the market may not exist if if governments pass laws, and yet, there it is.

The rest gets into rabbitholes of what constitutes market freedom. I’d say that markets always react to influences, and government influence is not particularly different from any other.

A market will react to the influences of weather or tech advancement or government dictat or a viral video. No market is free from influence; that’s in fact the value of markets, the ability to respond to those influences.

I’d say the critical freedom is the ability of the participant to choose whether or not to accept a transaction, no matter the source of influences going into the transaction.

But at the end of the day, capitalism exists regardless of governments, requiring neither support nor sanction from government.

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