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Which countries would you consider being closest to free-market?

• Joker_vD 5y ago
  Russia in the 90-ies: everything was up to sale, including human lives, government itself (all three branches), all kinds of property imaginable, and enforcement or non-enforcement of contracts. They're commonly named as "holy nineties" amongst the wealthy people who built their wealth (and managed to survive) during those years: no excessive bureaucracy, all problems could be solved (for the right price) with a single phone call to the right people. Paragon of freedom and efficiency! Of course, the rest of the population who also managed to survive the nineties remember them in much, much less rosy terms... and there were quite some number of those who did not survive, but eh, why care about those losers? As the first Minister of Economy and Finances of Russia himself said, "we're living during the tectonic changes and reforms, and the death of those who were incapable to adapt to the market is an inevitable part of the process".