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Which is exactly why people should be defining things in terms of the seller, not the buyer.


The seller sold it to you at the price you wanted so it'd be the same.


Yes, but (he at least thought) he only sold what he owned, but I bought more than what he owned.

Now he's been pursued by the press to comment, and he's the guy that sold that thing for $X for the rest of his life. I bought that from him too.

If I paid the market price, that doesn't happen.

So what did I really buy?




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