A Completely Free Market

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In a completely free market, unsupervised by kings and priests, avaricious capitalists can establish monopolies or collude against their workforces. If there is a single corporation controlling all shoe factories in a country, or if all factory owners conspire to reduce wages simultaneously, then the labourers are no longer able to protect themselves by switching jobs.

— Yuval Noah Harari, 2015

From the book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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