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Quote by: grandpa  However, you assume the state is appropriate for preventing companies from bilking the customer. Hence, desirability and conditionality both come into play, and are, in my view, important aspects of the discussion. Do we want to mainatin the state-capitalist system or go beyond it? Surely, this question isn't irrelevant to assessing what "free market" means (assuming we should put this discussion in a free market context, seeing as to how we don't really have one).
Grandp ah. | If you want to debate the appropriateness of the state-capitalist system, that is not a debate for this thread. This thread is a debate about whether or not it is appropriate, within the confines of our state-capitalist system, to allow the hand of the people to affect the market through the state.
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