> If you want free market to work, then deceit needs to be punished really harshly. But as we've seen, in a free market this deceit is rewarded, not punished.

> If you want free market to work, then deceit needs to be punished really harshly. But as we've seen, in a free market this deceit is rewarded, not punished. And if you try to intervene with government punishment, then it's not a free market. In other words, a truly "free market" doesn't work (in the sense that you meant when you said "work").