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A free market is not anarchy. It requires a government to protect rights, enforce contracts, and deal with externalities.



This is precisely my argument. A free market isn't really free if the government has to intervene in any form or manner. Per wikipedia:

   Such markets, as modeled, operate without the intervention of government or any other external authority
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market




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