It would be interesting to note how you define a free market in this context and what makes it “more free”.

Because a market can not be free unless there are rules and they are enforced.

Without rules and government intervention when necessary, what you get is the law of the jungle, which is precisely the thing the last 12000 years of human history has been about escaping.

A free market is not anarchy. It requires a government to protect rights, enforce contracts, and deal with externalities.