We mostly don't have a free market in the usual buzzword meaning of that term, and to whatever partial extent we do, it's replete with the kind of asymmetry in

We mostly don't have a free market in the usual buzzword meaning of that term, and to whatever partial extent we do, it's replete with the kind of asymmetry in information and power that leads to economic outcomes that are both inefficient and inequitable except as corrected for with the beneficial kind of government intervention. In other words, if you want good outcomes, you sometimes need the government. (Yes, I realize the government can make things worse and not only better; this is also true of the private sector.)