I find the commentary here rather odd. Most of you have colored this as some kind of left wing ranting but this stuff is the core of Adam Smith's philosophy.

I find the commentary here rather odd. Most of you have colored this as some kind of left wing ranting but this stuff is the core of Adam Smith's philosophy. When he talked about a "Free Market" the freedom he was talking about was the freedom to enter or exit the market. These issues about people not being able to farm without the say-so of a large purchasing corporation goes right to the core of that freedom. That's as anti-free-market as it gets. How you can call people asking for an actually free market "leftist" is kinda weird to me.