The marketers can compete with free; it just has to be better. Look at bottled water if you don't believe me.
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I strongly believe in a free market, and it is great when companies make money and pay their people well.
There's a difference between a free market and free-for-all market.
Every market has some rules and boundaries that restrict freedom of choice. A market looks free only because we so unconditionally accept its underlying restrictions that we fail to see them.
The basis of the free market is anytime you can generate revenue or profit, you've created value in excess of the resources you consume in a society. That's probably the most unbiased utility function there is, as opposed to someone's opinion.
People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement.
The free market is at its best when everybody works in a fishbowl and tells you their point of view.
People really feel like music is free but will pay $6 for water. You can drink water free out of the tap, and it's good water. But they're OK paying for it.
Free markets are amazing.
There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.
As long as gas is cheaper than bottled water, we can't be in a position of dictating to the consumer what to buy.