Do you think that a free market would create a huge social divide? Would that be bad?

[BOBO]

Both Economix & SDD have legitimate answers. The problem of "divide" is found with in the socialism/communalism that has infested our republic.
The Nixon administration did not help matters when the anti merging laws(monopolies) were to an extent "modified" to state it politely. Economix is correct in his assessment about the multi national corporations(MNC's). The Nixon administration opened a whole new can of worms with that legislation. No longer were corporations held to NATIONAL law, as they quickly became INTERNATIONAL.
This led to international monopolising, or CLOSE to it where small competitors were simply "purchased" into the family. An example is America's natural resources. which are owned by the citizens of our country. Take our crude. The crude extraction companies SHOULD be BIDDING to our so called federal representatives for the RIGHT to extract the American citizens crude, & our representatives taking the LOW bid for the American citizens benefit.
Instead, international law/treaties(EPA) & other graft & extortion special interest groups have American crude(we are/were the fifth largest crude exporting nation in the world!) being sold abroad, while we purchase other countries crude & refined petroleum products. Of course in the EXCHANGE the crude/petroleum products are SERIOUSLY marked up by the international bankers(remember your fed reserve question & my international bankers answer?) & here in lies the answer to the "divide".
Until Americans take back our country from these people we will continue down on our decline until America is "just" another country. Of course there remains many other propagated problems also, morality/coveting, the religion of socialism/communalism, greed for attention/political power over others etc.
It's went far enough this time that it's gonna take a super Carpenter to rebuild this structure/country, in fact the whole world.