Capitalism.

We went to Canton today.  For those of you not in the know it's www.firstmondaycanton.com.  The place is I don't know how many acres of stores and shops.  It's capitalism and the free market system in action.

Some of the vendors buy stuff and sell it, some create stuff, some find junk, some buy stuff and change it, and some do combinations of the above.  One table had a sign on it with the simple tag of "junk on this table $1".  Can you say truth in advertising?  Some of it was junk but some of it was just stuff like books, magazines, knick knacks, and etc.  The books were best sellers of a few years past, if you go to a book store they will be how much?  It's a dollar at that table and maybe you collect some of the other stuff.

We stayed in the "garage sale" area, people clean out their attic or garage and sell it.  Old kitchen appliances, old clothes, grandmother's knick knacks.  If you've been to one garage sale then you know what was there.  Sometimes you see some gems, a beautiful rocking chair or some depression glass.  Sometimes you see something that you wonder why they dragged it up there to sell; table legs, the big wood ones that go with big American dinner tables.  Why are they there?  Do they think that someone with table tops will stop by and start whipping out cash?  That's the beauty of capitalism.

If it works you make money, if it doesn't you don't.