Maybe we should try to get closer to a free market. Historically, the free-er a market, the more prosperous the market.
It seemed your initial comment was denigrating free markets. Perhaps I was mistaken in that assumption.
I would also urge you to look further into this statement...
Where manipulation by the current winners to keep innovations from seeing the light of day, are not allowed to take place.
If the "manipulation" involves leveraging market advantages to create a better or cheaper end product than competitors, it is a positive for the market. If the "manipulation" involves the purchase of legal force (government) to use against competitors or customers then it is a negative force in the market.
That is not manipulation, that is innovation as long as it is done fairly, and scrupulously.
It seemed your initial comment was denigrating free markets. Perhaps I was mistaken in that assumption
Yes you were, it was meant to denigrate people who continually throw out buzz words without really understanding that what we have are not free markets at all. Some winners are being picked by the market place, but too many are also being picked by government coercion.