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True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
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« on: July 19, 2012, 04:51:53 PM »

Badly enough said to be considered a minor gaffe, the basic point, that a highly successful business depends upon the actions of more than a single person, is true.  Businesses these days do not generally develop their own human capital.  They are dependent upon others to build the transportation and other infrastructure they make use of.  Of course, government need not be the providers of most of those things either.  The degree to which businesses benefit from government providing such services is a major point of contention between the two major parties these days.
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True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
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« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2012, 11:06:48 AM »

Must Federer share his credit for winning Wimbledon with the tennis balls because he couldn't have done it without some tennis balls?

Without other people interested in watching him hit a ball on overtrodden plot of grass, would he really have accomplished anything?  Federer didn't invent the sport or get people to start paying money to see it played. James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, would be a far more suitable subject for your counterargument.
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