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Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of ec

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"Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way"

- David Korten

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