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Running a small company, I get asked for a discount every week. Nobody asks the bank for a discount on its fees, or the state for a discount on its taxes.

Only the guy who actually built something gets haggled. Price is the last thing in my business I still get to set.
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Venezuela sat on more oil than Saudi Arabia, went socialist, and ran out of toilet paper. Takes real genius to go broke sitting on a gold mine.
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Owe the IRS nothing and forget one form, and the fine is $25,000. Nothing on the market punishes an honest mistake that hard. Only a government can bill you for doing nothing wrong.
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Sent $1,000 abroad. Three banks took a bite and it vanished for three days.

When a stranger does that, it's theft. When a bank does it, it's "in transit."
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Sovereign Being · 2d
"fraud mitigation"
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Kid in a $40 Che Guevara shirt says capitalism failed him. Shirt shipped next day with free returns. Che would've shot him for the markup alone.
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Post a job and you get dozens of replies, two people who can do the work, and one who answers on time.

The scarce thing in a small company isn't capital. It's people who finish what they start.
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French protesters are angry about the cost of living, so they burned a town hall.

Guess who pays to rebuild it.

Hint: the same people already paying too much.
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Sovereign Being · 3d
"french"
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Brussels wants to squeeze Starlink off EU airwaves to make room for European operators that don't really exist yet.

Can't build a rival, so they regulate the one that works.

Ukraine's front line might want a word 🙃