Wednesday, November 21, 2012  Exactly What Does The ‘"Free’" In
Free Market Mean?  image source Henry Harding Activist Post  The
Libor was rigged, the wholesale gas market is a fix, the biggest
of multinationals pay next to no tax on their profits but bleat
that they pay payroll on their minimum wage workers, insisting
that this is both responsible and, probably, humble. Several UK
water companies spend a great deal of money to ensure that
supplying life’s essential is the only socially responsible
thing they do.  Having bought the infrastructure built by our
forefathers for pennies in the pound, and then left it leaking
like a Government enquiry, they presumably justify their
position by pointing out that they have enough crap coming down
their pipes to deal with already. So be grateful, pleb.  So why
are they called free markets? In what world can monolithic
corporate monsters dominate everyday life, to the absolute
exclusion of any meaningful competition, and still be called
free? In an Orwellian mood it m