On: If You Bought Apple Stock Instead of Products

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of course, if everyone followed the above advice the stock would not have gone up (at each snapshot in time) since the reduction in purchased products and profits would not have moved the stock. That is, unless you subscribe to the tragedy of the commons, and let the commons write their own tragedy as you raked in the stock uptick / gains. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons