• @T156@lemmy.world
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    02 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.

      • SeekPie
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        02 months ago

        Doesn’t mean that businesses should allowed to be.

    • Tavi
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      02 months ago

      Agribusiness in shambles after draining the water table (it is still free)

    • Sandwich Artist
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      02 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.

      • finder
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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.

        • Sandwich Artist
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          2 months ago

          I love when apologists pop their head up so i can block them. Keeps my feed clean ya know?

          • finder
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            2 months ago

            If basic economics get you upset, then alright.

            Bye o/