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Old 01-24-2025, 05:36 PM
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Originally Posted by retiredguy123 View Post
True story. I knew a guy in Fairfax, Virginia who hung out at the pool hall every day except Saturday. He was a gambler and a pool hustler. He had a beard and drove an old pickup truck, and he looked like a farmer. He told me that, on Saturday, he would go to the wholesale produce market, buy produce, and sell it at a farmers market. He said that he could sell apples and tomatoes for 10 times what he paid for them.
Sounds like Capitalism.