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Things really haven't changed that much. Person X has an ample supply of a certain product that Person Y has a need for. A bargain is struck after Y approaches X with something that X finds novel and of use to his neighbor Z who has something that X feels is essential to his life. Another bargain is struck.

It is a matter of supply and demand, which schooltime lunches (in the ancient days when brown bags were popular) saw the trade of cookies for an apple. In trade not everyone gains but everyone must feel to have gained for the trade to be consumated.

In a Utopian society where all is available for free and goods and services need not be bartered or traded no one can gain an advantage. Utopias fall to robber barons (or schoolyard bullies). Trade only works well when certain controls exist. Long live free trade. Long live Fair Trade.

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