>>52536765
This is a persuasive argument until you realize that regulations will always exist. Any successful firm has it in their interest to create an environment of stable control.
>successful firms branch out and dominate industry
>establish most profitable rules for running business and killing competition
>enforce these through close-knit plutocracies
>this becomes what is essentially a government
You just end up with a slightly worse system than what we have now, and you can point to anti-market actions and peremptory legal edicts and say "well these aren't the free market," but you still have them. This is the exact same as the "not real communism argument." Americans should not be grasping this fantasy that they can live in a frontier state forever.