Free Market Capitalism (Pro) vs Statist Communism (Con)

A FREE MARKET VS A FREE-FOR-ALL MARKET My opponent states:"Here lies the 1st problem with a free market system, there are no checks on what a Corporation or Private Actor can do and production suffers for it. A good example of this is the Milton Hershey Corporation. Hershey had been enslaving children in West Africa and forcing them to pick cocoa beans to make their chocolate. In a free market system, the only goal is to make as much money as possible, therefore such conduct is not only allowed, but encouraged. The workers mean nothing in a Free Market system, as they can easily be replaced should they ask for more than they've been given. Under such a system, productivity decreases as well, as the worker is disconnected from the fruits of their labor. Under a communist system, money is a non-issue, therefore people can pursue the occupation of their choice, increasing productivity in the process."I don't know if Milton Hershey really did that since my opponent cites no source, but regardless, I do know that John D Rockefeller slaughtered his workers in what is called the Ludlow Massacre, so let's just go with that. First of all capitalism itself does not remove someone from their labor, but rather the exact opposite, by allowing them to work and benefit from what they produce, late 19th Century Croney Capitalism may have done this as workers became nothing more than factory tools, but Free Market capitalism would allow these individuels to work from home or start their own buisness if they want too. What we had in the late 19th Century is actually called monopolism, if there had been a Free Market, and oil-drilling workers had multiple choices as to which oil company they worked for, do you believe that they would chose to work for John D Rockefeller? They only did because they had to or they'd starve. He then states:"it's rather difficult to remain moral in a system where profit is cheered, and the human cost is pushed aside like it doesn't matter and slavery is cheered. Even if you assume that slavery can't exist in a free market, the entire premise of a free market relies on the accumulation of currency, therefore it's a choice between taking whatever your employer wants you to have or starving/freezing to death from a lack of wealth."You assume that people having property rights, and the ability to pursue any trade they wish automatically creates croney capitalism and exploitation. Profits are "cheered" in a Free Market system because people are greedy, and will pursue wealth, and there's nothing wrong with working an honest trade and earning an honest living, this is just the entire element of Capitaism. Really Communism relies on the idea that prvate individuels cannot help but exploit each other, therefor the goveronment needs to usurp their property and run their lives, everyones lives. This is why we enforced the minimum wage, because the goveronment thought that private individuels couldn't help but pay their employees a starvation wage, thus the goveronment is much better at determining morality than individuels (even though during the 20th Century individuels killed 8.5 million and the state killed 262 million), {1} thus, we enacted a 0.25$ minimum wage (that was worth a lot more in 1944 than it is today). This idea simply does not hold up to fact, Switzerland has no minimum wage and their average wages are 6,750$ monthly! {2} Compare that to a Socialist Country like China, Venezuela, or the United States. {1}. http://frankwarner.typepad.com... {2}. http://www.tradingeconomics.com...