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The Big Idea – Act 3

RIVAL 1
But so the others would
Who’re in your neighborhood.

ENTREPRENEUR:
Yes, all of us are free:
Why should that bother me?

RIVAL 1:
Exhausted by labor,
You’ll lose to your neighbor.

ENTREPRENEUR:
What! You think they would seek
To beat me while I’m weak?

RIVAL 1:
Why not? They’ll have the time,
And trading’s not a crime.

ENTREPRENEUR:
But I know certain things
Only great practice brings.

RIVAL 1:
You know fashions will change
When conditions are strange.

ENTREPRENEUR: (indicates sack)
Yes, too sadly it’s true,
Of women—and men, too.

RIVAL 1:
So you do understand:
You must shift with demand.

ENTREPRENEUR:
I can learn what they crave,
By the way they behave.

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