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Old 03-10-2012, 03:49 AM   #71
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Agreed.
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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana View Post
You have a buyer with money, and a seller with a product. If they can reach an agreement, they make the exchange. The money doesn't care what is exchanged. That's capitalism.

But when you introduce a third party which judges whether you are allowed to make the transaction, that looks less like capitalism. It illustrates a problem with our relationship with money in the internet age. Any third party which is in the business of facilitating transactions should be blind to what the product is. They aren't selling the product, they are simple directing money from the buyer to the seller.
Exactly.

Playboy magazine is still for sale, yet I've never heard of any bank preventing a customer from subscribing to it. Playboy was at one time an empire. Last I heard there was even a Playboy Channel. I'll bet the corporation even has a business bank account.
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