Do affirmative action programs make sense in a free market society? Affirmative

Do affirmative action programs make sense in a free market society? Affirmative

Do affirmative action programs make sense in a free market society? Affirmative action programs seek to create equality of opportunity. Free markets seek to reward the best ideas/practices (and hence create inequality). Are the two ever reconcilable then (where one creates equality, the other undoes it)?

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