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		antiismist on Jan 15, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hidden Secrets of the Amazon Shopping Cart "Consume" has negative connotations. How about "transact"? Voluntary transactions are good, because if they were bad people wouldn't do them.

staunch on Jan 16, 2009 [–]

> Voluntary transactions are good, because if they were bad people wouldn't do them.

Why would this be true?

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