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Commodities are good. They're cheap and don't need ceremony to buy.

The opposite is when distribution is controlled by someone subjectively judging if you're worth having it. This is very bad for minorities (the judger will be racist) and women (the judger will make you pay for it with your body).

Example in the US is the mass manufactured Sears homes, which whites in the South hated because they'd sell to blacks.




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