Familiar Diversions
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I get it: Myne's ideas are very profitable, and Benno wants access to as much of that as he can get. But a supposedly savvy merchant like him should also realize that simultaneously expanding your business into multiple completely different directions, especially ones that you have zero experience with, is probably not a good idea unless you have LOTS of money to throw into it all.
The Gilberta Company makes clothing and accessories. The hairpins make sense. Shampoo and paper are completely unrelated to all of that, but the characters at least seem to be taking that into account - there's going to be a separate business for those new products. But now Benno is talking about
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