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Comment by zohch

4 years ago

> This is the underpinning of modern capitalism.

How so?

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guiriduro  4 years ago

Crudely I'm guessing, information asymmetry. Which is usually considered a market failure, but is very common, perhaps even an "underpinning".

xattt  4 years ago

Value extraction.

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