Apparently, the wealthy are tired of having to reach into their own pockets to feed the influence machine that creates the policies that benefit them.

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One has to do with the acquisition of resources to feed the Chinese industrial machine and its growing consumer market.

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Feed in a digital manuscript, and in a few minutes the machine produces a bound paperback, complete with a color cover.

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Google is criticized because services like Google News provide the sorts of stories that in another era you needed to feed change into a newspaper vending machine to get.

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