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T H E   R E L U C T A N T  C A P I T A L I S T - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Heather Chaplin's column appears every other Friday Heather Chaplin is a business and freelance writer living in San Francisco. After studying American history and creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, she moved to San Francisco, where she began life as a business writer. Chaplin worked as a reporter in several Bay Area newsrooms before giving it all up to go freelance and get back to that unfinished novel. + Get the current Reluctant Capitalist column + Browse the Reluctant Capitalist archive Bookmark http://www.salonmagazine.com/money/col/chap/