{"id":1017,"date":"2025-11-26T16:05:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2025-11-26T16:05:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:05:47","slug":"what-free-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=1017","title":{"rendered":"What. Free. Market?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe id=\"odysee-iframe\" style=\"width:100%; aspect-ratio:16 \/ 9;\" src=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/%24\/embed\/%40MarginalNonHermit%3A3%2Fwhat-free-market%3Ab?r=8gvoByECHNgc2BfQ5o91oxf89bpi1Ui4\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I&#8217;ve been hearing commentators, most notably Sargon of Akkad and Nick Fuentes, saying we need to &#8220;give up on the free market.&#8221; But we haven&#8217;t had anything like a free market for over a hundred years, and what have we gotten for it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Full show notes <a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/what-free-market.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">It reminds me of an <a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/gun-control-cake-scaled.png\">old gun rights meme<\/a>: they want more of our cake, and they&#8217;re going to come back over and over again and every time the &#8220;problem&#8221; is that we have any cake left over at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Don&#8217;t buy the nonsense they&#8217;re trying to sell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Just a short list here, see the video or the notes for more:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">Income tax<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">A central bank<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Sales tax<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Business regulation, beyond fraud\/violence prevention<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Career licensing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Zoning<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">and more&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This video is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@MarginalNonHermit:3\/what-free-market:b\">Odysee<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/sUAHk-46hjE\">YouTube<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitchute.com\/update_video\/wK7HTzHF4T54\">BitChute<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Thanks to The Law Dog and the artist DK for the inspiration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been hearing commentators, most notably Sargon of Akkad and Nick Fuentes, saying we need to &#8220;give up on the free market.&#8221; But we haven&#8217;t had anything like a free market for over a hundred years, and what have we gotten for it? Full show notes here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,2],"tags":[37,59,86,60,19,72,81,202],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economics","category-political","category-video-link","tag-economics","tag-free-market","tag-freedom","tag-libertarian","tag-liberty","tag-politics","tag-socialism","tag-voluntaryism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marginalnonhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/what-free-market-thumb.png?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}