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Old 08-17-11 | 02:17 PM
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Originally Posted by delicious
This has almost nothing to do with "capitalism," or it "being a free country." I'm not a fan of the former and tend to laugh at the latter. A more properly capitalist enterprise of bike flipping would involve one person doing the work, the mechanic/driver/craigslist watcher, and another owning the business who pays less to the worker than they make after selling the bike.

Markets aren't unique to capitalism.
The thing that many people don't like about capitalism is that it takes effort to be successful. One day you'll figure out how it works.

And no... markets aren't unique to capitalist systems. Markets in which you have free and open choices are. One day you'll figure out how that works too.
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