The great Tom Woods has made something of a meme about a common retort to libertarian ideas. Some people with a rather shallow understanding of freedom will see a criticism of a corporation or other nominally private business coming from a libertarian and immediately realize an irreconcilable paradox in their reasoning: “You can’t complain about a private company. That’s just the market at work, and you are supposed to approve of everything the market does!”
The Myth of Private Companies
The Myth of Private Companies
The Myth of Private Companies
The great Tom Woods has made something of a meme about a common retort to libertarian ideas. Some people with a rather shallow understanding of freedom will see a criticism of a corporation or other nominally private business coming from a libertarian and immediately realize an irreconcilable paradox in their reasoning: “You can’t complain about a private company. That’s just the market at work, and you are supposed to approve of everything the market does!”