By Sam Scott

When you hand over the buy button to your artificially intelligent PA in a couple of years, be it of Google, Apple or Samsung stock, remember that you’re relinquishing control of the exact moment that legitimates the free market as we know it – the point of purchase.

What makes a market free? The familiar answer is a lack of regulation. A free market allows consenting adults to freely exchange goods, services and money. This picture of freedom relies on certain assumptions about human nature – assumptions that sit at the core of our beliefs about liberal society.

Liberalism assumes that when Read full story ›

Source: The Drum