Yeah. Though I'm fairly libertarian in my beliefs, I'm in full favor of regulation that encourages competition(e.g. setting up commodities markets to deal with

Yeah. Though I'm fairly libertarian in my beliefs, I'm in full favor of regulation that encourages competition(e.g. setting up commodities markets to deal with the utilities/necessary monopolies issues). > If you did this, who says they would then pass the savings on to their employees as a raise unless you also included that requirement in the new regulations. No one. It's a tough pill to swallow, but it's one we need to take ASAP. > The point of all this being that free markets are unicorns. They are when a "free market" country fails to recognize that it's really ran by crony capitalism and corporatism. I firmly believe at this point that corporations and the laws surrounding them(e.g. the ones that treat them the same as an individual, or better) undermines the whole concept of a free market.