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    2 months ago

    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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        2 months ago

        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.