A free-market economy is incompatible with a nondemocratic regime. No current government has reached as complete a state of democracy as it is possible for a government to reach. The nations whose anticapitalistic measures the people in question bemoan had totalitarian regimes in the recent past. The more democratic a country is, the less regulated its economy must be.
Investment banker: Democracies require free-market capitalist economies, because a more controlled economy is incompatible with complete democracy. But history shows that repressive measures against certain capitalistic developments are required during the transition from a totalitarian regime to a democracy. Thus, people who bemoan the seemingly anticapitalistic measures certain governments are currently taking are being hasty.
Which one of the following is an assumption required by the investment banker's argument?