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Why is Free Speech necessary to a Free Market? I thought a consumer choosing to spend their dollars was the "speech" in a Free Market environment. And when yo
by x86_64Ubuntu 6y ago
Why is Free Speech necessary to a Free Market? I thought a consumer choosing to spend their dollars was the "speech" in a Free Market environment. And when you lobby the government, you've kind of thrown out the Free Market paradigm.
- FpUser 6y ago>"And when you lobby the government, you've kind of thrown out the Free Market paradigm" "Lobby the government" that's what bigger corps do to the point of buying some. So it is only fair game.
- sandworm101 6y agoFree speech is also product review, such as LTTs recent video on this subject. Regulation of a market by government doesn't mean abandoning free markets. Regulation is an essential part of sustaining a free market. Totally non-regulated markets quickly devolve into monopoly and other anti-consumer evils such as devices, like this, designed to kill secondary markets.
- nybble41 6y ago> Regulation of a market by government doesn't mean abandoning free markets. "Regulation" in the old sense of "making regular", perhaps. Establishing fair weights and measures, preventing fraud, etc. Ensuring that individuals are free to trade and that all transactions are in fact voluntary (including, most importantly, transactions with the government itself). But when your "regulation" consists of applying force to micromanage how people—shareholders in this case—employ their capital for the benefit of some other group, you've moved well outside the realm of the free market.