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skew-aberration • today at 9:13 AM • 0 replies • view on HN

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."

Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

Land ownership is the biggest business and the source of the biggest conspiracies.