It is a common belief that big business is the driving force behind free trade and free market ideology. Not too rarely, that's wrong. Large corporations tend to lobby for state regulation of the market and protectionist tariffs to secure their established position and keep their own profits high due to a lack of competitors. That's why free markets do not equal the enslavement of mankind by capitalists, but much rather liberate humanity from the shackles that some businessmen want to impose on it.
(source: Cartoonstock)
