I feel like I've seen this elsewhere. I checked a week back on this community and didn't see it, so hopefully it's not some repost my Swiss cheese brain just forgot about or missed.
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It's not freedom when they all collude together to fuck people over in unison. No one "has a choice" to go somewhere else WHEN THEY'RE ALL FUCKING DOING IT.
So all the corporations need money. So they steal from EVERYONE and give nothing back in return. If this were thr government doing it instead of just enabling it, that would basically be communism. But because it's corporations fucking all the money it's some fucking how considered "freedom".
One of the most enlightening things I learned as a politically-aware teenager was that markets were artificial constructs that are enabled by reliable enforcement of contract law.
A free market is sometimes good, but never natural. I've always kept that in mind when arguing with laissez-faire types about how the government, which enables the market they supposedly love, should 'stay out of' preserving the market and allow it to be captured by wealthy elites and dismantled.