So there are a few strands here, but I think it’s possible to tie them all together. Fans of unfettered free markets balk at the notion of governments interfering in the breakneck pursuit of profit at any (legal) cost. ‘Classical liberals’ are similarly perturbed by the idea that they should have to moderate their behaviour or pay taxes in order to help a section of the population to which they don’t belong. The two combine to create a society in which money is all that matters, but in which ‘freedom of choice’ is used as a fig leaf to camouflage a callous commitment to an economic system
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