content: Show me a completely free market and I'll show you a fucking unicorn. The natural progression of markets is towards cronyism and rent seeking, this is just fact. Think about it, why would you exert all this effort just to make cents on the dollar in a competitive market when if you're able to eliminate the competition you could potentially make dollars on the dollar? Ideally the purpose of government regulation would be to act as a check to this, but they're simply not doing their job. Possibly due to being a bunch of corrupt muppets themselves.  If your whole argument consists of some idealized X that can never be achieved then it's likely a bad argument. Whether it's this or socialism.