> The free market is an empty ideology because there is no such thing in the real world Meh. If you can say that about "the free market" you could say that abo

> The free market is an empty ideology because there is no such thing in the real world Meh. If you can say that about "the free market" you could say that about just about anything. But in practice, people are able to recognize substantial free-market properties in markets that are substantially free, just as easily as they can recognize the properties of communism in systems which are substantially communist, even while Real Communism Has Never Been Tried™.