“So as far as markets are concerned I’m a libertarian, but I have enough expertise in politics and history to understand that a free market ends up as monopoly unless you force them to be free.”
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said that, in an interview with Forbes blogger Andy Greenberg.
Assange has “mixed attitudes toward capitalism,” but he loves markets; the more information available to consumers, the better:
“For a market to be free, people have to know who they’re dealing with.”
Who exactly we’re dealing with in the case of Julian Assange remains a bit of a mystery. Facing some legal trouble, he “strongly denies any wrongdoing but admits having unprotected but consensual encounters with two women during a visit to Sweden in August.”
A wise observer reckons that “this guy is being player hated upon.”
I have chosen not to leak said wise observer’s name.
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