This conclusion is being drawn from weak premises, though I'd agree with the article that we were sold this faulty assertion by our leaders. Is a free market e

This conclusion is being drawn from weak premises, though I'd agree with the article that we were sold this faulty assertion by our leaders. Is a free market even possible with an top-down, authoritarian, surveillance state like China? They even describe themselves as a "socialist market economy", which is pretty far from what economists would call a free market. I'd argue that from the outside, the only agency we have is to give an authoritarian state more customers. That might be liberalizing, or it could just empower and entrench the status quo. A debate about this might be more relevant to current times.