> You seem to think nobody would ever damage the environment of land they owned. Yes. Of course, you can also hurt yourself if you want and there are no rules

> You seem to think nobody would ever damage the environment of land they owned. Yes. Of course, you can also hurt yourself if you want and there are no rules that can avoid this BUT most of the time people will like to avoid it. > It just turns it to be extremely cheap for the most part. Well, that's the problem. If you suddenly have to pay for those 5k lung cancers in the area, extremely cheap it will not be. > How does a free market prevent me from dumping toxic waste in the ocean? If you do it cleverly and secretly, nothing in the world will stop you from doing it. No communism, free market, or whatever. But if you're a company and you have at least one disloyal or environmentalist worker willing to blow the whistle, you (as a director of that company) might have to live in what amounts to effective slavery for the rest of your miserable life trying to clean up your mess and pay reparations. Please listen to the audio, there are cases where civil law suits are expensive enough to effectively discourage you (that is, if you're sane and not stupid).