If every individual does not have the same opportunity in life is it truly a free market?

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If every individual does not have the same opportunity in life is it truly a free market?

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[Speaker 1]

So it's basically a question to Professor Bailin again around surrounding education. So it's not true that there is a correlation between not reassuring every child's right to education and, for example, child labor. And also, if you do not have the equality of opportunity, do you truly have a free market between individuals, or do you have a monopolistic one?

[Speaker 2]

I'm not sure I understand the question.

[Speaker 1]

Well, the first part of it is...

[Speaker 2]

You went from education to...

[Speaker 1]

Well, if you don't... If every individual does not have the same opportunity in life, then is it truly then a free market? Or if you look at a free market between individuals, if certain individual has a great...

[Speaker 2]

OK, so it's the same question, basically. What is an opportunity? It is that... Is that measured by the outcome of your actions, or is it measured by something else at the origin? How do you explain that some people are able to create a lot out of almost nothing, and some people create nothing out of almost everything? What is an opportunity? That's the question back to you. It's very difficult to say that we should have equal opportunity. That's a simple statement.