Quote ="Sal Paradise"Not really you simply find other customers...'"
You seem to have missed the point about laissez-faire (or, as you'd erroneously call it, "free market"icon_wink.gif.
In a culture where "commissions" are the norm, that's actually a "freedom" in that market and considered by some companies to be merely a cost to be factored-in.
Such companies will only ignore such markets if the "commissions" are too great, not because of any moral imperative.
Quote ="Sal Paradise"- free market capitalism in action, isn't this in reality the Chinese model right now?'"
China has a one-party government, Communist.
It deals with the world outside in a market economy.
It has opened its internal market more to market forces.
When even China embraces the power of a market economy but remains a communist state ... do you see now how your usual polarisation of opinions isn't valid?