“Free markets”: an oxymoron?

Santosh wonders if “the freedom of choose is the freedom to conform”.

…walk around any neighbourhood in suburban “US and Aâ€? and what do you see? Cookie cutter homes!!! You have row upon row of homes that are nearly identical – neatly manicured front lawns, 1/2/3 car garage, enclosed backyard with a deck or screened porch or even …… gasp …… a swimming pool! Is this epedemic of duplicity endemic to the US? Lets take India for instance. The flourishing middle class in India is living where? In urban areas in flats. Row upon row and floor upon floor of nearly identical looking flats. You get richer, you buy more flats or you move to a new development, a single home community, that look suspiciously like American suburbian neighbourhoods with …………….. cookie cutter homes!!!