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[–] 80 points 2 years ago (13 children)

There's also an argument that if the business was that reliant on free things to start with, then it shouldn't be a business.

No-one would bat their eyes if the CEO of a real estate company was sobbing that it's the end of the rental market, because the company is no longer allowed to get houses for free.

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    Unregulated capitalism. That’s why people in dominant market positions want less regulation.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

    Extracting free resources of the land

    Not to be contrarian, but there is a cost to extract those "free" resources; like labor, equipment, transportation, lobbying (AKA: bribes for the non-Americans), processing raw material into something useful, research and development, et cetera.

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