The whole story of free markets could well be a ruse. Most of the value thrown off by economic systems, any economic system, is, as a matter of fact, provided as a gift by Nature's God.
The real question is how much concentration is there in the commodity markets relative to the other markets. It could be the greater the giftedness of a good, the greater the propensity to concentration.
Furthermore, if the concentration is high, then the existence of relatively free markets upstream or down could well serve merely to favor the extraction of more value at the nodes that are concentrated coupled to the corresponding removal of that value from the nodes representing the relatively free-er markets.
Such a skewed mixture of narrow concentration where the resources are abundant, coupled with broad diversity where creative, man-made product dominates, could thus design an economic system that provides the returns of oligarchy behind the semblance of creativity, fairness and legitimacy.
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