*shrugs* Then I am obviously a fool for wanting as free of a market as we can have.That's generally what happens in a free market.
Wouldn't it be pretty easy to prove that we aren't in a free market, if actually shown that we don't by getting rid of these hidden costs that nobody really thinks about and the price doesn't change with the removal of them?
We don't live in a "free market".
A "free market" has never existed, in fact.
It's as foolishly utopian to call for a "free market" as it is to call for "socialism".
We all want utopias. Doesn't mean that they're going to happen, though.