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By refusing to do business with the company, these Apple non-consumers are, for the most part, insulated from Apple's capitalistic choices and activities.
Jodi Beggs: Steve Jobs Versus Wall Street: Not All Capitalism Is Bad Capitalism Jodi Beggs 2011
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To the extent that these non-consumers of health insurance become consumers of medical services that they cannot pay for, health providers incur costs which are shifted to other patients, including insured patients.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Colorado Attorney General Explains the Obamacare Lawsuit 2010
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To the extent that these non-consumers of health insurance become consumers of medical services that they cannot pay for, health providers incur costs which are shifted to other patients, including insured patients.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Colorado Attorney General Explains the Obamacare Lawsuit 2010
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The cream is India's market, which consists of many millions of people who buy cellphones and televisions and cars and Valentine's Day cards; and the water is superfluous people who are non-consumers and just pawns who need to be drained away.
Arundhati Roy's Version of Disaster in "This Year of India" 2010
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Meanwhile, the women who ate 4 grams or more of dried mushrooms perday had half the cancer risk on non-consumers.
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Surprisingly non-consumers had the highest mortality of all.
Have some. Ann Althouse 2009
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The Plan for the New American Century google PNAC, NWO, WHO, Global Elites, Endgame, Codex Alimentarius is to exterminate “useless non-consumers”, and set the world population at 500 million.
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The people who claim to watch no TV except PBS are, of course, conspicuous non-consumers as well.
Vickie Karp: The Third Screen: Kurt Andersen on Nano-Seconds of Beauty, 2008 2008
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"Cocoa is a crop grown by non-consumers but consumed by non-growers, hence it is the non-producers who consume and determine the price which they can buy cocoa," he said.
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A disruptive innovation transforms an industry not by competing against the existing paradigm and serving existing customers, but by targeting those who have no other option and are not being served -- people we call non-consumers.
Clayton M. Christensen and Michael B. Horn: Virtual Learning Hits Campaign Trail 2008
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