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		Draiken 7 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI... Talk about utopia huh? Free markets never existed, don't exist and never will. Markets are defined by laws and regulations in which they exist in. They can't ever be "free".

Lammy 7 days ago | [–]

Relevant U.S. Constitution: https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-1/#ar...

> “The Congress shall have Power… To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;”

graemep 7 days ago | [–]

I agree. A free market requires regulation to ensure competition otherwise it ceases to be a free market.

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