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Yes. Most people and companies have to justify their extensive time and boat loads of money spent. He wants to grow his business and he's willing to invest to do it. If Coca Cola built roads to villages to sell their products, you would also be unhappy?

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> If Coca Cola built roads to villages to sell their products, you would also be unhappy?

If Coca Cola built roads to villages to sell their products , but only Coca Cola trucks could use the roads - FTFY

Now that doesnt look so good, does it?

No, that still looks pretty good, because some people want to buy Coca Cola.

They might also want to buy, I don't know, bread.

Should the bread company have to build their own roads, too? That's a better world, how exactly?

And what about the people who don't want to buy Coca Cola? Should they get to buy nothing?

But those roads were already nonexistent, and their nonexistence is not affected by the existence of Coca Cola roads. In this hypothetical, we are comparing a world with no roads to a world with roads to deliver Coca Cola. Since some people like Coca Cola, I find the latter world preferable.

How about Coca Cola's Skype machine: http://youtu.be/zlA9tXYxD8g

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