a free market = dog eat dog, only the monopolies will survive, you have to be completely innovative or bring new ideas to the table to get anywhere.
you guys seem to only care about regulation as a whole as if nothing good has come from it, poor regulation gives regulation a bad name to conservatives.
even with regulations(which are poorly made) farmers get exploited for their products by big companies, without regulation this would continue to happen. properly planned and thought out regulation to control produce and put a limit on price gauging can help farmers, have you heard of your local grocer marking up their vegetable goods by up to 5000% of what they paid for them? guess who is getting the shit end of the stick; the farmers AND the people, if there was proper regulation in place to stop this it would help curb productivity exploitation.
the customer is always right? thats full of shit jon.