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Um, the free market requires a government to enforce peoples' rights and to enforce contracts.

> They're a total ripoff and a tourist trap and that's with capitalism's vaunted free market backing the enterprise.

If you think they're a ripoff, don't patronize them. Nobody is making you.

> the free market requires a government to enforce peoples' rights and to enforce contracts

That seemed obvious to most observers, up to the Cold War.

It can't account for international trade, which functions on mutual self-interest.