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A free market means zero regulation, so I hope you like drinking poison because "ain't no gubmint telling me how to bottle my soda!"
This requires kicking capital out of the economy. That would be defeating capitalism.
No, it's called voluntary participation. Free markets inevitably trend toward monopolies and concentrations of power, because the supply side is not held to any standard.
And look where it's gotten us - with a 1% bleeding the rest dry.