The Free Marke is the supperior economic system

1) Are they tied? Somewhat. Education, as a general rule is not held by the private sector but the public sector. Cuba and China for example, have very unfree economies, and they have excellent education systems, and both of them have low HDIs, but have significantly higher HDIs than countries of similar economic freedom and. The United States, Canada, New Zealand, Scandinavia, and other very economically free countries also smoke Vietnam, and Cuba, as I have found two other happiness scales that disagree with yours [1][2] 2) This is correct, but once again Government has a role with it, as inflation in the UAE is on a growing trend. [3] It is also far from the ideal free market zone, their economy is dependent on Oil, in a free market there a lot more eggs in other baskets. Also in a free market, government wouldn't print money to the point that this would happen. A free market mind you, is not a substantial factor for superior economics, but a necessary one. Where you have powerful economics you find freer economies, but freer economies aren't magically productive. In the same way that steady breathing is necessary for a good shot, but not a guarantee that you will hit it. 3) Yes you do, you live with Negative freedom, freedom from outside forces. Positive freedom is what you are thinking of, freedom from internal constraints. and are things that can exist in a free market system, and are bestowed on the individual by the individual. When Positive freedoms are bestowed by something like the state, you take away some negative freedom from the individual, and from another source. 4) " How does exchange value measure itself" Different aspects can factor into it, quantity and quality are just too possible parameters. "Quantity and quality are measured in labour. The more labour goes into it, the larger both will be" Not necessarily true . "Worth is a completely meaningless concept" Value is a synonym for worth. If Worth is a completely meaningless concept, it follows that any theory of value is a meaningless theory. Which is obviously not true. 5) The law of value itself is an assumption, that labour is special. Working is, in essence selling your labour to someone else. Labour itself is a commodity, and has value that can be measured subjectively on any amount of parameters ( IE how efficient is this work, how precise it is, how aesthetic it is) Someone will work for another person based on the price someone is asking for it. If you say your labour is worth $7.25 and I value your labour as something higher than that or in the same way, I will buy it from you. Its a transaction, nothing more. Since labour now has all the same characteristics of a product, we might as well have a potato theory of value. Labour can be valued, but like all other valuables, its value is subjective. 6) Its allowed, not encouraged. People value the environment, therefore That doesn't seem like an argument against Free markets but one against ignorance. Over here in America there is a huge movement for going green, and it has been propping up companies with more eco friendly products and less eco unfriendly ones. 7) Due to capitalism we've seen far more haves and far fewer have nots. It has been accomplishing the goal of socialism since its inception. Thomas Jefferson(A founding father of America) Was considered upper middle class, and to live his life style he would need to spend Three million dollars a year in 1776, now one only needs to spend a few thousand a year to do the same. [4] [1]http://www.zmescience.com... [2]http://en.wikipedia.org... [3] http://www.tradingeconomics.com... [4] 49:33