The system is inefficient, but it supports a class of professional writers, which might not otherwise exist.

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It is not, in fact, regulation of commerce at all, but the creation of commerce through compulsion where voluntary transactions would not otherwise exist.

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They could also provide an atmospheric electrical potential difference, which otherwise might not exist, to achieve precisely aimed and timed lightning strikes.

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