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Conspiracy #0: Associate the very notion of conspiracy with insanity. "Two men of the same trade seldom meet but for the purpose of deceiving the public." - Ad

• cottonseed 13y ago
  Hadn't heard that quote before. From https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Adam_Smith https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Adam_Smith: "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty or justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary."