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Re:Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops by lo_zamoyski on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @05:17PM (#38537704)
That wouldn't be a free market. It would be some kind of oligarchic corporatism. Government is necessary to truly enable free markets. The key to understanding that is to understand what "free" truly means [0]. It isn't "do what thou wilt".

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38537665

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Re:Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops by SAI_Peregrinus on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @11:04PM (#38540369)
A freely competitive market (as envisioned by Adam Smith) is very different from a free market (as the term is commonly used today, at least by many conservative political parties). I fully agree that without sufficient regulations markets cease to be freely competitive.
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