The portions of the apparent free market package that disturb me the most are not the obvious distortions. It’s the frank anti-egalitarian attitudes of certain individuals who clearly do understand that not all pro-business politics is pro-market.
It’s not always the fake free-marketeers
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“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it, and a moral code that glorifies it.” – Political economist Frederic Bastiat, The Law [1850]
Scratch a free market idealist or romanticist and you’re likely to find a mercenary weasel underneath. There is something almost refreshing in the unabashed aristocrat.
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