Originally Posted by
Elvis90
"A free market economy is a market-based economy where prices for goods and services are set freely by the forces of supply and demand and are allowed to reach their point of equilibrium without intervention by government policy, and it typically entails support for highly competitive markets and private ownership of productive enterprises"
A real free market would destroy our career. There would be an airline that would pay pilots $20,000 a year to fly a 777 and they will have no problem finding pilots qualified enough to not crash the planes enough for the free market to notice.
And before someone says, "You can't find a 777 pilot who can safely fly the plane for $20,000 a year" just look at the regionals. They used to hire pilots with 250 hours and upgrade them at 2-3,000 and it took a generation before the public demanded the government to step in and raise the minimums. If it wasn't for the government, the general public would may have continued to demand more experience pilots, but they wouldn't pay for it.