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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: bentway who wrote (741358)9/24/2013 12:55:19 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie  Read Replies (1) of 1578740
 
That's the crock, Jorge, right there. The sellers of slaves were in no way prevented from setting any price they liked, and the buyers were totally free to accept or reject the offer.

You cannot have a free market in goods to which you do not have rightful ownership. No human has the rightful ownership to another human. The slaves were there by force. Because the trade in slaves may have had some characteristics in common with a free market, does not make it a free market.

A similar argument can be made about a free market in stolen cars. Sure the buyer and seller may voluntarily offer and accept or reject a price for the stolen vehicles, but it isn't a free market because they do not have rightful ownership to the items they are selling.

The fact that you are trying to make this connection between the free market and slavery is actually quite humorous in its desperation.
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