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Well, there can be a free market within a state and enforced by the state. Not free in the anarchy "do anything you want" sense, but in the sense that people ar
by andreyf 11y ago
Well, there can be a free market within a state and enforced by the state. Not free in the anarchy "do anything you want" sense, but in the sense that people are free to enter into contracts and make decisions within a framework where the restrictions are well justified and often reviewed.
- bediger4000 11y agoThat's a legally free market, but if the NSA is pirating "intellectual property" and someone in the government is deciding to give that information to particular entities in the market, it's not economically free. It's exactly the same as a government propping up some corporation because that corporation is part of the "defense base", or fixes prices or something.
- andreyf 11y agoNo, what I'm describing is a free market inside of a single state protected by a single an intelligence community. You'll have to be a little more specific about the IP scenario - where are they hypothetically getting the IP? Is it from another lawfully operating US company, or somewhere else? The former I see no justification for, the latter is a little more complicated...