I never said it always worked. I never once said anything about the "Free market". You gave me a specific hypothetical question and you got an answer. Because that answer is too hard to logically defeat you now have to take a cue from the bucky to create a strawman in which to thrust your sword at.
Government, for all its faults, is a necessary evil until human beings stop thinking only of themselves and what they can get for themselves.
Of course big powerful corporations/people have influence over the way society works, the way laws are made. Its like prohibition, I bet you think that was a law created for the intention of stopping people from drinking too much so that society could be better.
It wasn't. It was a ploy created by John Rockefeller to put Henry Ford's Ethanol fuel out of business by making it illegal.
