> What I said was that the fanboys claim that the free market will utilize every opportunity of profit, and I'm claiming that's not borne out by experience. St

> What I said was that the fanboys claim that the free market will utilize every opportunity of profit, and I'm claiming that's not borne out by experience. Strawman. The claim is that folks will try to find profitable things. That doesn't imply that they'll tolerate, let alone prefer less profitable things. (It also doesn't imply that everything profitable has been found.) If you think that there's good money to be made on breadboards in Boston, go for it. What? Your beef is that someone else isn't catering to something that you don't value enough for them to make money? If you don't think that breadboards are worth much, why should anyone else?