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I'm not trying to steamroll you, I just disagree.

I can't find a source defining free markets as requiring government intervention, I'd be really curious to e one of you have it.

Adam Smith didn't think government intervention was necessary, as best I recall. He described what he called the invisible hand, but that is the natural market forces of self-interested parties not government control.

I copy/paste a quote from Investopedia right now for some reason, but Smith described his opinion of the tiles of government and it specifically didn't include controlling the free market

https://www.investopedia.com/updates/adam-smith-wealth-of-na...



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