You won't play less because of teleportation, you'll just spend two hours grinding so burn through the content twice as quick and spend half as much on subscriptions.
Company B will have lower costs, therefore will get all the business. Therefore the scheme works. But well done on not understand anything, not saying anything of any relevance, yet still being modded up.
The USA isn't just the middle class. The people who will suffer the most from this new tax scheme are the people who are living hand-to-mouth, who are about to get fucked good and hard by the need to choose between driving to work or heating their homes.
You don't actually know any poor people, do you?
Poor people don't drive to work anyway, they can't afford a car, never mind the fuel, insurance etc.
Same thing when people start piping up about high speed rail. Frankfurt to Munich is like Boston to Philly.
Only in terms of distance.
I just love how threads like this bring out the exceptionalism: "We have a big country, therefore as a New Yorker I have to buy my goods from California."
Ah yes, the Broken Window fallacy. Here's a hint why this is bad: you're forcing people to spend money to, in effect, tread water, instead of letting them invest in something that will expand their business.
If someone's business is ruining the world via pollution, why do we want it to expand?
And even if his business did stagnate, the money he didn't spend on a new oven was spent on his upgrades, so there's no net loss to the economy.
The broken window fallacy isn't appropriate here, as replacing a window with another identical window doesn't add to the economy, whereas an improved oven/air conditioning does.
Just because you can live fifty miles away from where you work and eat food imported from ten thousand miles away doesn't mean you have to. Just because you have cars doesn't mean you had to build your society around them. There's no reason the whole of the USA couldn't have been built on a European model, with the countryside only for farming.
Americans are not short of food, quite the opposite. Not only are they largely obese due to over-eating, they throw huge quantities of food away because it's so easy and cheap to buy more. Increased energy costs wouldn't lead to starvation.
Of course it may mean eating something grown down the road rather than grown in Africa and processed in China. It may also mean reduced consumption of foods requiring lots of resources such as meat, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Increased costs of transport wouldn't be a bad thing either. More telecommuting, more living near work, fewer wasteful sprawling suburbs. More cities, more local shops, fewer Walmarts.
If you're capable of writing an MMO yourself, you should be capable of either writing software yourself without an employer, or founding a startup with someone else.
But hey, thats just me, a spoiled American I guess.
Well, America wasn't founded by people who waited for people to give them a job.
In which case, no-one will want to spend $200k being trained to do a $35k job, so the colleges will have to either cut their prices or go out of business. Either way, everyone wins.
Speaking of plumbers, in the UK a few years ago, plumbers could charge what they liked. Now thanks to immigration, you don't get gouged every time your sink is blocked.
Immigration is good for everyone other than those who were ripping you off in the first place. Maybe now new grads won't be able to demand six figures for writing 'hello world'. Maybe it will be cheaper to set up a software company and provide more competition to the market.
I'd say its time to pull the plug on free trade and let these people jump start their own local economies on their own merits, and not on shoveling their crap into the USA. India has not done a damned thing for the USA and I see no reason why the USA should throw its people out of work to subsidize India's economy.
Free trade is not worth it.
The once great USA taking their ball and going home because they can't compete anymore. What a sad day.
Btw, no surprise that this article has seen hundreds of child-porn apologists crawl out of the woodwork. Well done Slashdot, you've really excelled yourself again.
Any health care system, private or public, would have to seriously ration drugs if it had the pitiful budget of Britain's NHS, which is half that of pretty much all other developed nations.
You can't pick and choose, your employer chooses for you. And the refusal of insurers to treat pre-existing conditions means that when you need treatment, you can't switch providers, and if your current HMO refuses to cover you, you're fucked.
and if I don't want health insurance I don't have to get it AND I don't have to pay for anyone else's at the same time.
This is of no value to anyone other than sociopathic libertarian hill-billies. "Other people die so I can save taxes" isn't a convincing argument against socialised health care.
This Churchill quote seems appropriate right now: The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Quoting a racist, upper-class twat doesn't exactly bolster your argument. If there's going to be misery, why shouldn't the ruling elite get their share of it?
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It's not about kinetic energy it's about impact. This is junior high school stuff...
You won't play less because of teleportation, you'll just spend two hours grinding so burn through the content twice as quick and spend half as much on subscriptions.
So, the answer to the USA polluting too much, is for the rest of the world to pollute just as much?
How about, you lower your GDP so you're not polluting FIVE TIMES as much as everyone else?
So, the only risk is that everyone reduces their pollution.
What was the down side again?
CO2 is a waste product of beer, not one of the four raw materials.
Company B will have lower costs, therefore will get all the business. Therefore the scheme works. But well done on not understand anything, not saying anything of any relevance, yet still being modded up.
Poor people don't drive to work anyway, they can't afford a car, never mind the fuel, insurance etc.
And the USA needs 25% of the world's economy, because...
Only in terms of distance.
I just love how threads like this bring out the exceptionalism: "We have a big country, therefore as a New Yorker I have to buy my goods from California."
If someone's business is ruining the world via pollution, why do we want it to expand?
And even if his business did stagnate, the money he didn't spend on a new oven was spent on his upgrades, so there's no net loss to the economy.
The broken window fallacy isn't appropriate here, as replacing a window with another identical window doesn't add to the economy, whereas an improved oven/air conditioning does.
Just because you can live fifty miles away from where you work and eat food imported from ten thousand miles away doesn't mean you have to. Just because you have cars doesn't mean you had to build your society around them. There's no reason the whole of the USA couldn't have been built on a European model, with the countryside only for farming.
Americans are not short of food, quite the opposite. Not only are they largely obese due to over-eating, they throw huge quantities of food away because it's so easy and cheap to buy more. Increased energy costs wouldn't lead to starvation.
Of course it may mean eating something grown down the road rather than grown in Africa and processed in China. It may also mean reduced consumption of foods requiring lots of resources such as meat, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Increased costs of transport wouldn't be a bad thing either. More telecommuting, more living near work, fewer wasteful sprawling suburbs. More cities, more local shops, fewer Walmarts.
If the American economy relies on endless consumption, growth and pollution, then let's all hope it does implode.
If you're capable of writing an MMO yourself, you should be capable of either writing software yourself without an employer, or founding a startup with someone else.
Well, America wasn't founded by people who waited for people to give them a job.
In which case, no-one will want to spend $200k being trained to do a $35k job, so the colleges will have to either cut their prices or go out of business. Either way, everyone wins.
Speaking of plumbers, in the UK a few years ago, plumbers could charge what they liked. Now thanks to immigration, you don't get gouged every time your sink is blocked.
Immigration is good for everyone other than those who were ripping you off in the first place. Maybe now new grads won't be able to demand six figures for writing 'hello world'. Maybe it will be cheaper to set up a software company and provide more competition to the market.
Why is this racist shit modded up?
The once great USA taking their ball and going home because they can't compete anymore. What a sad day.
If people regularly posted pictures of naked children on Slashdot, I wouldn't visit it. Simple, no?
And what about the vast majority of the world's population who don't work at a computer?
And what exactly is so important about the app store that it cannot be bypassed?
It's impossible not to visit 4chan?
Btw, no surprise that this article has seen hundreds of child-porn apologists crawl out of the woodwork. Well done Slashdot, you've really excelled yourself again.
Any health care system, private or public, would have to seriously ration drugs if it had the pitiful budget of Britain's NHS, which is half that of pretty much all other developed nations.
You can't pick and choose, your employer chooses for you. And the refusal of insurers to treat pre-existing conditions means that when you need treatment, you can't switch providers, and if your current HMO refuses to cover you, you're fucked.
This is of no value to anyone other than sociopathic libertarian hill-billies. "Other people die so I can save taxes" isn't a convincing argument against socialised health care.
Quoting a racist, upper-class twat doesn't exactly bolster your argument. If there's going to be misery, why shouldn't the ruling elite get their share of it?
So when you drive in, it drains your battery to power their market. How the fuck is this 'green'?