Restrictions on the Free Market: Term Paper

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This information goes both ways, which is essential for the functioning of the free market.

While this information comes and goes in the free market, so does it in the realm of advertising and consumerism. Companies advertise, consumers follow suit with their response, and these companies continue with or adjust their advertising methods to better suit themselves and their consumers. It is this give and take that has made the American business world and its economy so generally successful since the country's inception as a nation. Consumers know what they want and companies understand how to give these desires back to the consumers. In the arena of business, it is rare for any company to succeed who plays their consumers for fools, and companies in the realm of fast food and junk food do not play their consumers for fools either.
Rather is the consumer base that plays the fool in many situations, ignoring the nutrition facts and general understanding that these foods are not good for anyone in large doses, consuming these products en mass, and placing the blame on advertisements rather than themselves, where the finger should be pointing. As such, the free market, as well as its advertising, should never be restricted. What should be restricted, however, are the hasty and ill thought-out actions of consumers, who continue to eat products regularly that any health-conscious individual simply would not......

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