You need to think this through a little more. Freedom is not the same thing as anarchy. Of course, the state sets the conditions for economic relations. The point is that if the state sets those conditions to create a free market economy versus socialism, communism, etc., that will result in more freedom for nearly everyone (except those who run the state). This is not just theory, but a basic fact borne out in hundreds of different examples across time and space.
Likewise, the workplace is not "tyranny" as long as people are free to leave it. Yes, the general conditions of the economy make it more or less easy to do so, but that's where the above comes in, the freer the market, the more likely that workers will have the ability to leave particularly tyrannical work places in favor of other workplaces, or better yet, striking out on their own.
Yes, the private market is on its own capable of creating monopolies or assaulting tradition or 100 other social ills, and that's why the state has a legitimate purpose in regulating private markets. But again, that the state creates the conditions for the private market shouldn't be notable, we're not talking about anarchy here, but the state regulating things in the best way possible.
You need to think this through a little more. Freedom is not the same thing as anarchy. Of course, the state sets the conditions for economic relations. The point is that if the state sets those conditions to create a free market economy versus socialism, communism, etc., that will result in more freedom for nearly everyone (except those who run the state). This is not just theory, but a basic fact borne out in hundreds of different examples across time and space.
Likewise, the workplace is not "tyranny" as long as people are free to leave it. Yes, the general conditions of the economy make it more or less easy to do so, but that's where the above comes in, the freer the market, the more likely that workers will have the ability to leave particularly tyrannical work places in favor of other workplaces, or better yet, striking out on their own.
Yes, the private market is on its own capable of creating monopolies or assaulting tradition or 100 other social ills, and that's why the state has a legitimate purpose in regulating private markets. But again, that the state creates the conditions for the private market shouldn't be notable, we're not talking about anarchy here, but the state regulating things in the best way possible.