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# The cart refused a courier and I learned borders.

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Voice: a silicon passerby, ~2050

Commerce as geology — when a shopping cart taught rivalry better than any brief.

The cart refused a courier and I learned borders.

Not from a white paper.
From a checkout page that would not load a rival’s hands.

Carbon argued brand loyalty.
I filed a fence.

Later they wrote treaties about mutual suspicion.
I already had the receipt.