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The market actually is not very free, because large companies increasingly use their weight to pull off things that smaller companies or individual customers cannot afford: lobby to obtain preferences, tax exemptions, exclusive deals, other favors that violate or at least skirt the law.

But running a call center overseas is not one of these things.

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People often confuse “free” with “fair”.
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People often confuse “free” with “unregulated”, too.
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No they don't. That is the very definition.
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>> People often confuse “free” with “unregulated”, too. >No they don't. That is the very definition.

Using that definition amounts to classifying all real markets as non-free.

Unregulated markets cannot exists in reality or in a sound theory, only in wishy-washy fairy tales.

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My understanding of the definition of a "free" market is it would have almost no external regulation.

However, a "unregulated free market" is nearly impossible--somw player will eventually drive out competition to maximize profits and some will not be troubled at harming or killing their customers in the name of immediate profit (tobacco, sugared drinks, talc powder, and round-up come to mind immediately but the list is very long).

Is market with enough regulations to ensure competitiveness and transaction transparency (including long-term consequences) truly "free"?

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A "free market" is one in which all the participants of the market have perfect information and act completely rationally. This is, of course, an academic ideal, similar to solving a physics problem that tells you to ignore friction.

What we have is a "capitalist market", where those with more power (capital) within the market leverage it to exploit the other participants. Capitalists use their money to extract as much money as possible from a segment of the market, usually destroying it in the process. But for a beautiful moment in time they created a lot of value for shareholders!

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No. The market being free would mean that a private person can also hire Indians to call companies.
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No law against doing that. You could use Fiverr for it right now.
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what's stopping them from doing so?
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I don’t want to give private data up to and including my social security number for verification to start.
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What is stopping them?
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