I don’t believe free market exists in the USA and I think it’s economy and media is almost as heavily controlled as China.
It depends on sector and scale. At the small- and medium-size business level, yes there are free markets. As you get into large businesses and highly political structures (media, healthcare, education, etc.) you're right, we are nearly devoid of a free market.
That's exactly like China though. The heavy involvement of military and quasi-military outfits in business is also exactly like China. It is what our own State Department and other liberal (in the larger economic sense of the word) opinion outlets have criticized China for for decades.
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I was with you until this sentence:
It depends on sector and scale. At the small- and medium-size business level, yes there are free markets. As you get into large businesses and highly political structures (media, healthcare, education, etc.) you're right, we are nearly devoid of a free market.
That's exactly like China though. The heavy involvement of military and quasi-military outfits in business is also exactly like China. It is what our own State Department and other liberal (in the larger economic sense of the word) opinion outlets have criticized China for for decades.