I would suggest that this is actually the same story, reported from two different perspectives.

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Consumers are supposed to shop around to make competition work and keep prices down.⁣ ⁣ Funny how the invisible hand depends on so much unpaid labor from the rest of us. (with @svaneksmith.bsky.social) https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/all-onion-no-bloom

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Something that I think about regularly from my Southern Baptist upbringing is, in the early or mid 90s, a young gay man who had left the church contracted HIV/AIDS, his family ostracized him and then told us that he "turned his back on God" when they abandoned him to die alone.

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I was like seven and it was maybe the first time that something evil done in the name of God registered to me and I always think about it when these articles are published.

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the whole thing makes no sense otherwise bc there's no other logical connection between paying your mortgage and paying property taxes (do these ppl think that you should never pay property taxes if you buy a house in cash? what abt ppl still paying a mortgage in retirement?)

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