• NicoleFromToronto
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    233 days 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.

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      3 days 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.

      • richmondez
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        12 days ago

        While true, they tend not to bare the costs of the environmental damage, at least when these activities are poorly regulated.

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          3 days ago

          If basic economics get you upset, then alright.

          Bye o/