• Sandwich Artist
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    242 months ago

    Businesses relying on free things. Logging, mining, ranching, and oil come to mind. Extracting free resources of the land belonging to the public, destroying those public lands and selling those resources back to the public at an exorbitant markup.

      • @[email protected]
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        112 months ago

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

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          32 months ago

          Entrenched companies often want more regulation to prevent startup competition. Pulling the ladder up behind them.

          • @[email protected]
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            12 months ago

            To be fair, they want more regulation n others, not on them. Specially if they’re doing shady things.

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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.