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You mean that same free-market that had no problem with child labor?
Before the free-market, children worked on farms didn't they? And then after a few years child labor became less and less prevalent as prosperity increased. Children no longer had to work so they stopped working.
The same free-market that decided blacks couldn't work "intellgient" jobs?
Compared to before when they had no jobs. And now blacks are employed in a variety of jobs.
The same free-market that if didn't have to would pay slave wages? Yeah, that free-market.
That's an irrational assumption based on nothing.
Your hatred of the free-market stems from comparing what we had when we were close to a free-market system to what we have now. It is not a fair comparison. For a valid comparison, you need to look at what capitalism changed once it was instituted. Before capitalism, you could go generations without any economic growth. Once we got capitalism, we expected growth every year.
Your thinking is the fallacy of irrational comparison. You don't take into account the many variables that have changed. You cherry pick one variable and say that one variable caused the change. It's the method of "correlation does not prove causation."