Why stop at circa-2000s internet when we got a whole past to go back to. We don't need to go far before much of current day market regulations didn't exist and

Why stop at circa-2000s internet when we got a whole past to go back to. We don't need to go far before much of current day market regulations didn't exist and people could freely choose to do things and not do things as much they wanted. Coal mines that used indebted servitude out competed mines that did not, and if people didn't want to go into indebted servitude they could always choose to not sign the contract. The market spoke and the customers choose of their own free will to go to the company store, paying more than they earned, and increased their debt year after year.