The Need of a Continuously Expanding Market for Its Products

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i love apple, for instance, but the way that apple salivated at the thought of china opening up to commerce. It's almost like there was a natural selection for capitalism in humans that sort of ran rampant. And so it's, you know, one point, mark says, look, i'm not, it's not tha blaming the capitalists. The capitalist machine is in the hands of fewer and fewer people who are incredibly self-interested.

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