> Do you mean free market? Because I feel like land use restrictions are antithetical to a free market. Depends, should you be "free" to offer terms on land yo

> Do you mean free market? Because I feel like land use restrictions are antithetical to a free market. Depends, should you be "free" to offer terms on land you own, and to "free" to accept those terms when purchasing? Whenever people talk about "free markets", it often embeds a sneaky internal contradiction between (A) the freedom to operate without worrying about secrets and strange restrictions, versus (B) the freedom to create secrets and strange restrictions on others. That pattern is a pet-peeve of mine: People will celebrate a "free market" as being theoretically optimal when everyone has perfect information about prices and deals... Then the next day others will pooh-pooh concerns over cartels, because a "free market" enables defectors to make secret deals with hidden prices. I wouldn't be surprised if in some cases they ended up being the same people.