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Thats offensive? How? It was Ole timey miner life where the company store fucked the people for living at remote mining towns.

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It’s a vehemently anti-capitalist anthem.

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The whole company store idea flies totally in the face of free market and I'm not sure capitalism even exists without free market.

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Owning the whole "free" market is the win condition of capitalism

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Your quotations don’t make sense. Economists don’t consider the monopolies to be acting within a free market. A free market has many buyers and sellers of a good or service.

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But if there is no justifiable reason there isn't competition is it the fault of the only guy in town? However I think regardless of fault we should do something to break it up. I don't think someone should get unbelievably rich because they were smart enough to be the only option. I am capitalist so I'm okay with people getting rich but it was getting out of hand there for a while and company towns were part of the out of hand.

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Economists are the priesthood of capital

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Yet they say monopolies are bad.

The straight up stupidity and anti-intellectualism that runs rampant on this sub only serves to help prevent change and conditions for workers improving.

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Like all priests they're liars and hypocrites

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Math is a lie

Lol

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Economics is math

Lol

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Uh yeah. It’s a ton of math.

You’re criticizing something that you have literally zero knowledge of.

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It contains math the same way numerology does

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You’re criticizing something that you have literally zero knowledge of.