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64 Post author: Ghatanathoah 26 July 2012 07:20AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 26 July 2012 04:28:24PM 3 points [-]

Indeed, I immediately thought “what's the difference between the government giving you $50 that you can only spend on cables, and it just giving you cables?”.

Comment author: Ghatanathoah 26 July 2012 09:36:26PM 0 points [-]

Indeed, I immediately thought “what's the difference between the government giving you $50 that you can only spend on cables, and it just giving you cables?”.

There isn't one. The reason I phrased it that way was to help keep the link between the various steps in the thought experiment as clear as possible.

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