Most people don't like in America with its ridiculously cheap hardware prices. There's a reason most PC gamers worldwide play MMOs or browser games rather than high end FPSes.
Console games have years of gameplay becasue they're designed primarily to be fun rather than a timesink/content consumption mechanism like a PC game. Consider how much gameplay people got out of Mario or Sonic, compared to a PC game where you just watch cut-scenes for hour after hour until you get bored and uninstall.
It's not really art though is it, you're just going through the motions, doing exactly what you're supposed to be doing. There's no creativity or expression, just regurgitation.
If you're so productive you'd be able to work fewer hours, rather than having to work more. And those stats only work if you assume that GDP is entirely a function of the productivity of the worker. If that were the case there'd be a stronger link between GDP per worker and income.
The components, factories and infrastructure are still all in China. Even if you had the robots, it'd be cheaper to have them in China. It wouldn't eliminate shipping costs either, you'd still have to ship them from the US to the customers.
You yanks are so naive. Ever since a group of cavemen sat down and formed a tribe, and decided on rules which every caveman in that tribe had to live by, then the 'rights' of man have been doled out by government.
It may be true that a few radical liberals in the colonies in the late 18th century decided that their government would give people more rights than others, but they are still granted by the government.
Who do you think wrote the constitution? God? Aliens? It was written by the government, it can be modified by the government, and it's enforced by the government.
Azeroth is actually communist, as all workers have free access to the means of production (anvils, forges), as well as natural resources (fishing pools, herbs). If Azeroth were libertarian, you'd have to pay a private owner for access to his copper nodes.
So the ancient rulers ran a centuries-long secret conspiracy to spread Christianity, all the while persecuting Christians, and building expensive momuments to pagan gods to keep up the pretence? A conspiracy that transcended continents, languages, and lasted through countless civil wars and transfers of power?
Government cannot create private sector jobs. Period.
Government spending stimulates demand which provides the private sector with its customers. Cut government spending and you cut the private sector as their customers run out of money.
I don't see how that would work out. Bear in mind that Finland has the best pre-university education system in Europe, you couldn't get that in Ireland no matter how much you paid. Even if the private schools in Ireland were as good as the Finnish state schools, they'd cost tens of thousands, way more than you'd save on taxes.
Then you have the high cost of living in Ireland because of the property bubble, the inferior telecommunications infrastructure, the crime, the unpaved roads, the Catholic theocracy etc.
I don't think many people will be willing to accept a massive drop in living standards just to save a few thousand on their taxes, especially when it works out to be a false economy.
There's a passage from Orwell that I can't recall, but the general gist is that poor people don't save up because they have no pleasure in their lives other than the instant gratification they get from instantly spending. The middle-classes can easily forgo the occasional indulgence because their lives are easy and pleasurable as they are, they can let that one go because they know there are many more to come, the poor have to take it because that's basically all they've got.
There aren't enough resources in the world for everyone who wants to start up a business to get the funding. Even a dot-com start-up requires dozens of employees, server farms, electricity, software licences etc.
A few successful investors rationing out those resources helps direct them to the most fruitful ideas. It doesn't always work, and plenty is wasted on bad ideas, but it's the most successful system we've discovered so far.
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Allowing weird characters in names so no-one can type them is the worst thing a developer can do.
You're expecting people to upgrade several components in the middle of a global depression.
Most people don't like in America with its ridiculously cheap hardware prices. There's a reason most PC gamers worldwide play MMOs or browser games rather than high end FPSes.
Console games have years of gameplay becasue they're designed primarily to be fun rather than a timesink/content consumption mechanism like a PC game. Consider how much gameplay people got out of Mario or Sonic, compared to a PC game where you just watch cut-scenes for hour after hour until you get bored and uninstall.
It's not really art though is it, you're just going through the motions, doing exactly what you're supposed to be doing. There's no creativity or expression, just regurgitation.
If you're so productive you'd be able to work fewer hours, rather than having to work more. And those stats only work if you assume that GDP is entirely a function of the productivity of the worker. If that were the case there'd be a stronger link between GDP per worker and income.
It's traditional to go home and spend the holiday with their families. They can't do this in a day.
The components, factories and infrastructure are still all in China. Even if you had the robots, it'd be cheaper to have them in China. It wouldn't eliminate shipping costs either, you'd still have to ship them from the US to the customers.
I don't think the roads are subsidised by the government, they're fully funded by fuel taxes.
You yanks are so naive. Ever since a group of cavemen sat down and formed a tribe, and decided on rules which every caveman in that tribe had to live by, then the 'rights' of man have been doled out by government.
It may be true that a few radical liberals in the colonies in the late 18th century decided that their government would give people more rights than others, but they are still granted by the government.
Who do you think wrote the constitution? God? Aliens? It was written by the government, it can be modified by the government, and it's enforced by the government.
Azeroth is actually communist, as all workers have free access to the means of production (anvils, forges), as well as natural resources (fishing pools, herbs). If Azeroth were libertarian, you'd have to pay a private owner for access to his copper nodes.
Most games don't allow play between platforms. I'd like to see someone play fifa or streetfighter with a keyboard.
Makes you wonder how the ancient Greek mathematicians who lived in North Africa managed.
Surely that's only an issue in certain climates. And people went to school and worked in offices long before AC even existed.
Concorde had fly by wire and supercruise.
What's the relevance of things being fixed in Windows 8 when this phone has Windows 7.5?
Even most of the things you disagree with you make excuses for or say are opinion, which is basically Stockholm Syndrome.
It's subjective to say a fart stinks, it doesn't mean it isn't true.
I'm pretty sure that Ceres is heavier than ten tonnes.
Was he forced to sell out? He could just have stayed there working on technological advancements but he saw dollars signs in front of his eyes.
Yeah that's why everyone's 97% poorer than they were a hundred years ago.
Oh wait...
So the ancient rulers ran a centuries-long secret conspiracy to spread Christianity, all the while persecuting Christians, and building expensive momuments to pagan gods to keep up the pretence? A conspiracy that transcended continents, languages, and lasted through countless civil wars and transfers of power?
Maybe you should put down the Dan Brown books.
Government spending stimulates demand which provides the private sector with its customers. Cut government spending and you cut the private sector as their customers run out of money.
I don't see how that would work out. Bear in mind that Finland has the best pre-university education system in Europe, you couldn't get that in Ireland no matter how much you paid. Even if the private schools in Ireland were as good as the Finnish state schools, they'd cost tens of thousands, way more than you'd save on taxes.
Then you have the high cost of living in Ireland because of the property bubble, the inferior telecommunications infrastructure, the crime, the unpaved roads, the Catholic theocracy etc.
I don't think many people will be willing to accept a massive drop in living standards just to save a few thousand on their taxes, especially when it works out to be a false economy.
There's a passage from Orwell that I can't recall, but the general gist is that poor people don't save up because they have no pleasure in their lives other than the instant gratification they get from instantly spending. The middle-classes can easily forgo the occasional indulgence because their lives are easy and pleasurable as they are, they can let that one go because they know there are many more to come, the poor have to take it because that's basically all they've got.
The people in Britain who design and build cars are rarely given the chance to run the companies.
There aren't enough resources in the world for everyone who wants to start up a business to get the funding. Even a dot-com start-up requires dozens of employees, server farms, electricity, software licences etc.
A few successful investors rationing out those resources helps direct them to the most fruitful ideas. It doesn't always work, and plenty is wasted on bad ideas, but it's the most successful system we've discovered so far.