[Jim Noble]

The “free market” dissolves natural affinity groups and by rendering everyone free of unchosen affiliations renders everyone powerless before the organizers and owners of the “free market” - which, like mature communism when the state withers away, is an imaginary construct of intelligent but immature minds.

[Wallace T.]

I don't know if monopolies can exist in a market economy short of government collusion, whether the railroads in the 19th Century or tech in the 21st Century. Cartels tend to corrupt government officials and pursue their own public policies, whether Zuckerberg in our day or Rockefeller a century ago. That is a weakness in a market economy system.