Almost everything Reason or low IQ libertarians advocate for has nothing to do with a free market. Our current system with transnational corporations is so far removed from anything resembling a free market. Monopolies and cartels arise because of government interference, subsidizing, and heavy-handed regulations. When someone is defending the rights of these large “private” corporations and institutions, they are defending the network of politicians and bureaucrats that prop them up. Free markets and free trade is ideally the most efficient way to run an economy, but given the relationship of governments and corporations (even outside the United States), we aren’t even close to being there. That’s why antitrust legislation and regulations to protect civil liberties is so important because there are no other “free market” solutions since we do not exist in one. It would be great to live in a world where they wouldn’t be needed, but that is a delusional pipe dream, much like the communists who constantly claim that “real” communism has never been tried.