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I recognize that the "Free Market" becomes "complicated" as businesses scale and become de facto Governments that decide who gets a job where and, we may buy or sell, and influence Policy... And I don't have an answer. Like everything else in our environment... It's evolving... we don't understand the end state yet. That being said, I firmly believe that free market capitalism is the path out of poverty for the poor in the third world. I target women owned businesses because women's rights often don't exist in primitive cultures (they are viewed as property and abused beyond belief) and economic power IS power in these places.
I've lived around the world... and in a couple of "bad neighborhoods" where I pocked up a personal appreciation for woman's issues. I occasionally get involved in political and social issues here at home; however, at the end of a day... over a single malt... I often wonder to myself, "what the **** are we arguing about?" Our problems don't amount to "a hill of beans" compared to problems of people living in third world nations. Sierra Leone particularly comes to mind.
Come on... You can afford a few bucks to help someone you don't know. Make a Kiva loan (and tell your friends).
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