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Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person by dwaltrip on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @08:02PM (#13991759)
As in many of these discussions, this hinges very heavily on the notions of "free exchange" and "consent".

How do we account for the effects of power or leverage imbalances on free exchange or consent?

If you consider violent force and the like as just one extreme on the broad spectrum of potential leverage between two parties, then we see that a primary focus of most governments is to limit or prevent leverage of cetain forms or intensity.

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Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person by bsbechtel on Thursday March 30, 2017 @06:45AM (#13994291)
>>How do we account for the effects of power or leverage imbalances on free exchange or consent?

If it's financial leverage not gifted by regulatory protection, why do we necessarily need to?

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