Today, I’d like you to imagine a hot-dog business. After buying your cart, permits, insurance, hot dogs, buns, and condiments, you hit the street. You sell hot dogs people will happily pay $2 for. Let’s say it costs you about $1.50 to produce a hot dog, so you’re making a gross profit of $0.50 per unit.

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