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Why I Love Capitalism

By on July 19, 2004 in Ideas

Russell Roberts’ account of this exchange with a sidewalk artist makes me feel all warm and tingly inside:

I gave him a $20. He handed me the change and said, “We’re even.”

I smiled and said, on the contrary, we have a beautiful picture and you have our money to enjoy as you wish. We’re not even. We’re both better off.

It sounds horribly pedantic on paper, like an English teacher telling him he’d used ‘hopefully’ in the wrong way. But he smiled and said, you’re right.

But of course we were even in another way. We were both better off.

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Business Opportunities Weblog editor and publisher Dane Carlson lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, just 15 miles from Yosemite National Park. He accidentally became a professional blogger in 2001. He has added 12,203 posts to the site.

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  • http://www.DuctTapeMarketing.com/weblog.php John Jantsch

    But you see any relationship, business transaction, sale…is about trading value, both perceived and real. Once you understand that the rest is simply semantics.

    Great Blog Dane, keep it up.