[misslibby]

> Freedom to what, in this context?

The freedom to work in the way they want. To escape the hamster wheel, for example by starting their own company with the conditions they prefer.

> This is the "capitalism will solve it" argument which proved so untrue we passed the Civil Rights Act and the Equal Employment Act.

It didn't prove untrue. The early days of capitalism where marked by a previous population explosion and abandonment of the feudal system, with lots of people pouring into cities looking for work. That is why there was a lot of poverty.

> That creates entire regions of the country that are no-go zones if your skin color is wrong, and we decided that's not acceptable.

Pretty sure there are lots of No-Go zones for people with the wrong skin color today. At least if your skin color is white.

> I'm concerned about whether it would be harder to keep a job free of daily torment if you're the wrong skin color than it is now.

So you think there wouldn't be any businesses run by black owners? Why not?

> But I'm pretty sure to explain why that changed, you're looking for Reagan-era deregulation

So the economy was better in the past, but your argument was that it was worse?

> Interesting and unsupported hypothesis.

Well everybody who HAS heard explanations knows they exist, so the reason you have not heard of them must be that you wilfully denied their exoistence.