FREEDOM OF PRODUCER AND PURCHASER
Freedom is called freedom in many contexts like political, economic, civic freedom. Certain types of freedoms are guaranteed in the greatest book of law, the Constitution. But many other freedoms are left to be decided by the operation of the society itself and the society decides whether such freedoms should be guaranteed or not, like those related to social norms and their most striking examples are those covered by the means and values of social control. But certain other freedoms are those which are not even seen as freedoms and one example of such freedoms is the freedom from arbitrary price rise. Price rise or fall is seen as merely economic event governed by rules of demand and supply. But in actual practice price is not always fixed by the rules of demand and supply. Many times prices are fixed by extrenous factors and one such factor is desire of the government of the day to keep population on its knee. For example even after good yield price of many edible items are deliberately allowed to be high and other instance is the price rise of petrol and diesel despite low international price of crude oil. Such items are essential for life and people are bound to purchase them but because of their unavailability for life they are forced to purchase these items at artificially high price and thus they are also forced to cut their savings. In this way people's right to enjoy such items when production is in plenty is curtailed. See, in a society population contributes in the production but under such condition people are not allowed to enjoy the fruits of production. Rather small section which is not directly involved in the process of production is unjustifiably favoured to amass higher profit that it deserves. This group may be private or public and may even be the government itself as we see in case of rising petro fuels price. This is one manifestation of corporatization of the market which is neither free from curbs nor fair to the purchasers. Rather third party enjoys the fruits of production.
This principle is being applied in recent Farm(business) rules at every stage from right over land to right to produce, to right to sell, to right to adjudication of disputes. At no stage actual producers and consumers have freedom, rather at every stage producers and purchasers both are dependent on the third party who is neither the producer nor the consumer. This third party is allowed to control the supply chain and price. And in turn this third party by means of its already existing control over infrastructure is allowed to affect the demand as well. When neither the producer nor the consumer has freedom both have no way in supply and in demand. Under such circumstances producer is forced to produce what the third party wants to sell and the consumer is forced to consume which is supplied. And all are bound to follow the dictates of certain traders , the third party which in fact is compelled to influence tax system to maximize the profit. This will ultimately create imbalance in the operation of public welfare state. And virtues of ideology of common good is sacrificed for some one's individual good.