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Comment author: Clippy 14 March 2010 05:41:53AM 4 points [-]

I think the main problem is that humans tend not to engage in financial transactions with non-humans. (Yes, you could cite "corporations" as a counterexample, but those have a human behind them.)

Also, I have a hard time entering the financial system to begin with.

However, for ethical reasons, you'd want to avoid cutting the price low enough that people buy from you when they really want scrap metal.

Yes, that too c=@

Comment author: wedrifid 15 March 2010 04:50:04AM 0 points [-]

I think the main problem is that humans tend not to engage in financial transactions with non-humans. (Yes, you could cite "corporations" as a counterexample, but those have a human behind them.)

This is very possible. Many actual humans have reason to pointedly neglect their status as an 'actual human' for the purposes of making some financial transactions. Signals of 'actual humanness' such as fingerprints and the use of traceable identification are particularly neglected.

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