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[–] dsilverz@catodon.rocks 2 points 8 hours ago

Yes, yes, "there's no such thing as a free lunch" amirite?

After all, we all get to see how all the other roughly 2.17 million (according to IUCN Red List) known species beyond Homo sapiens, from avians (and especially birds!) to fishes and whales and dolphins and wild felines and so on so forth, we all see them practicing the Rothbardian, Mises-ian, Rand-ian and Friedman-ian economic principles such as the Laissez-Faire~~tale~~ economy.

Two days ago I got the presence of Ms. Hootie, a Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus) who visited me in my backyard and told me about her successful startup company, Ornithoracle Webservices Ltd. (unfortunately she's not hiring Senior DevOps positions yet, but I managed to connect with her "L🦉kedIn" (it's read "LOOkedIn", the LinkedIn for owls) so I'm now part of the talents database, looking forward for the brilliant future in which she decides to hire new talents to the nest she's planning for 2027 to expand her business to Gliese-581g). She has shown me her extensive portfolio of clients and her diversified stock papers (she invests in MICE, FRRT, OPSM, CRKT and other very yielding businesses; in fact she seems to love investing in MICE, as she keeps watching it to grab more of it the instant it's wandering anywhere low).

Capitalism is practically a fundamental part of Evolution here in this Pale Blue Dot! In fact, Ms Hootie also told me she heard capitalism is very trendy in Gliese-581g either (hence why she's planning to do business there), and that the Big Bang was the "initial market boom" where the first CEOs and shareholders popped up into existence and extend the glorious invisible hand of the Market throughout the cosmos (it's especially handful if you got a wallet full of stocks like Ms Hootie has).

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