The more they recycle, the more gift cards, actual goods and services they get on discount from participating merchants.

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When I first read the story I thought it was an exchange for actual goods, like bed pans and surgical kits, a circa-1999 idea like the old Commerce One or VerticalNet.

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Another area Facebook could move into is the purchase of actual physical goods.

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Can you name a person who ended up poor and unhappy because they devoted too many resources to the voluntary production of public goods of actual value to the rest of society?

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For years big technology companies that employed thousands of people, made and sold real products, and once in a while even exported actual American-made goods, had to accept being the fat targets of patent trolls.

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The ideal would be to find an annuity that varies with the actual inflation rate, because the basket of goods that a retiree will consume is going to be different than the basket of goods a young person will consume .

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The prices of goods and services should be determined by the actual forces of supply and demand in their market.

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