>>I don't necessarily infer that.
>>It certainly implies that she'll gladly take some free gas if she can get it.
>>So would I.
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>Here is the fundamental reason why I'm an advocate of free market capitalism.
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>I (likely) would not take a free version of anything significant. If someone gives it away, it means that someone placed no value in it. I don't want anything significant for free if the person giving it to me placed no value in it.
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>This is Austrian economics 101 - the concept of value.

But the whole concept of trade revolves about the partners valueing the thing they get at least slightly more than the thing they give up?
A shrewd trader is one knowing of such windfall positions and making a profit on it - in earlier times taking the risk of transfering the goods.
A capitalist turning down profit or doubting his values ?

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