When people criticize the free market, they are usually complaining about what happens when you intervene in the free market.
Subsidies have changed the way the nation behaves.
There is a reason and not a reason for everything.
The more money spent by government to address social injustice the greater the cries of social injustice.
The most practical information about life is sneered at by social planners.
Animosity towards the merchant class has been around for centuries. Why? The goal of making a profit is quite obviously a self-serving motive. Other occupations, while equally self-serving, are better able to hide their motives.