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1) Sure, there's loads of water around for free. You can drink it by the puddle-full every time it rains. But if you want clean water from a tap or a bottle, then someone has to work to make that available to you. The only way that you can have a right to water bottled or on tap is if another living, breathing human being is obligated to provide that right to you. In short - someone else must be your bound servant. Do you have claim this as a right?
2) Congratulations, your preference for trade is the very embodiment of capitalism in the tradition of Adam Smith, Frederck Bastiat, F.A.Hayek, Ludwig Von Mises, et al.
The fetid mess that currently gets called capitalism is actually a mix of crony corporatism, mercantilism, fascism and a little capitalism. So much force and fraud is mixed in to the market in order to sustain vested interests.
In capitalism, the banks would never have been bailed out when the credit bubble burst. But then, a truly capitalist market place would not have had a Federal Reserve Bank to pump easy credit for housing loans into the economy. It was this credit - unbacked by a real demand - that drove the housing boom. Entrepreneurs saw this credit and thought that it represented real demand on the part of housebuyers and so they invested in housing. Housing prices and all related costs soared while scarce resources were misdirected away from other sectors of the economy causing declines all around. Eventually, the central bank credit turned sour as lenders realised that borrowers couldn't meet the costs of their borrowing - they had been given more credit than they could afford. And so the boom turned to bust. And believe me, its got a long way to go yet.