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<blockquote data-quote="MrFedEx" data-source="post: 936748" data-attributes="member: 12508"><p>These are cherry-picked examples of the free/black market. The basic Libertarian philosophy depends on an <em>overall </em>free market, which doesn't exist. We have always had an alternative marketplace, albeit for moonshine, drugs, or under-the-table cash deals for goods or labor. None of this affects Monsanto, ADM, FedEx, or any of a multitude of other companies out there that exist in a market specifically shaped for them by favorable regulations, tax laws, or other incentives. In the case of Monsanto, they essentially have a monopoly on the seed market. Watch the movie "Food Inc", and then tell me that there is a "free market" in the case of soybeans. FedEx gets defacto subsidies in the form of an RLA exemption for it's Express division and an "owner-operator" status for it's ISP Plan Ground contractors. Would these be available to me if I decided to start a competing company? No. If I wanted to sell soybeans, I'd be sued by Monsanto the second I opened the doors of my business, and I would have no chance of competing against them, regardless of the depth of my pockets. No possible way to succeed, no matter how hard I pull on my bootstraps. So, where is the "perfection" of the free market, determining who succeeds or fails? It simply doesn't exist.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MrFedEx, post: 936748, member: 12508"] These are cherry-picked examples of the free/black market. The basic Libertarian philosophy depends on an [I]overall [/I]free market, which doesn't exist. We have always had an alternative marketplace, albeit for moonshine, drugs, or under-the-table cash deals for goods or labor. None of this affects Monsanto, ADM, FedEx, or any of a multitude of other companies out there that exist in a market specifically shaped for them by favorable regulations, tax laws, or other incentives. In the case of Monsanto, they essentially have a monopoly on the seed market. Watch the movie "Food Inc", and then tell me that there is a "free market" in the case of soybeans. FedEx gets defacto subsidies in the form of an RLA exemption for it's Express division and an "owner-operator" status for it's ISP Plan Ground contractors. Would these be available to me if I decided to start a competing company? No. If I wanted to sell soybeans, I'd be sued by Monsanto the second I opened the doors of my business, and I would have no chance of competing against them, regardless of the depth of my pockets. No possible way to succeed, no matter how hard I pull on my bootstraps. So, where is the "perfection" of the free market, determining who succeeds or fails? It simply doesn't exist. [/QUOTE]
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