That's called collusion, and is very, VERY rare in markets that don't have artificially high barriers to entry. How hard do you think it is to start a new oil company today vs a hundred years ago?
Yeah, having the price drop by 90% over the course of their monopoly, which was enforced only by the superiority of their product and the efficiency of their business practices (else their competition, which had 10% of the market share, would have taken over).
Honestly, it's like these kids go to high school and just accept whatever crap is fed to them as fact.
Except that when those guys got into power, it went from a world full of people dying of starvation to being practically unheard of.
Why do the socialists never remember what life was like PRIOR to the industrial revolution? Why do they think people lined up for factory jobs if those jobs were so much worse than their lives on the farm?
Right, those guys eventually go out of business, while the ones that pay for quality remain. If there are long term consequences to bad behavior, then those consequences will be suffered by those to behave badly. Those extra costs will build up for the cheapskates, but not for those who pay for quality.
If people aren't hiring you, it is probably because the extra costs of having crappy programmers isn't as high as you think it is, or because they simply DON'T HAVE THE MONEY to pay to do it right, and they will flounder themselves into bankruptcy in a few years anyways. Not sure I would want to work for a company on the verge of bankruptcy, myself.
Any locality that tries to tax wealth sees immediate and mostly irreversible capital flight, and their economy is totally destroyed in the process.
It's like liberals don't have the ability to learn anything that they haven't been subjected to themselves. These things are going on in Europe RIGHT NOW, and the results have been nothing short of unmitigated disaster. And they aren't even done with the second act yet.
You tell em, Komrade. Make glorious revolution for making of proper economics education upon these capitalist swine. Worked out well for us in every other instance in history. Note I said "us" as in party members, not the people. Those guys really got screwed!
God, don't give them ideas. They could make ANYTHING a taxable benefit if they make this taxable. Am I receiving a taxable benefit from the US government by using their roads? For existing in a space defended by the military? How much is that worth? They'll probably say it's worth a hundred thousand dollars per capita and have use pay a few tens of thousands of extra dollars a year.
90% of GDP is the level beyond which additional debt causes crisis. This is historical fact, and happens EVERY SINGLE TIME. The US has passed 100% debt to GDP.
You are retarded. You deserve what you are about to get. I would weep for the future, but you and others who think like you have ensured that there won't be one.
Some types of liquor will destroy your life immediately. Those types of liquor were widely available during prohibition, but you have to break into a laboratory or a chemical plant to find them now. Why do that when you can get just as drunk much more safely off something from a liquor store?
Nevermind that most of the alcohol consumed in the US is in the form of beer and wine, where those things practically disappeared during Prohibition. That is the exact metaphor for this situation, and state worshippers totally ignore it to justify their insanity.
Wait, wait, wait. So you are saying that you A. think that drugs destroy lives as an inherent property of the drugs and B. you have an interest in taking them?
How is his life destroyed? By taking the drug, or by being put in prison?
"Stop liking what I don't like" is not a reason for prohibition. There are LOTS of addictive things that are perfectly legal. Making them illegal is what causes the most harm. Sure, alcohol may ruin a few lives, but putting alcoholics AND social drinkers in prison almost by definition does more harm because it destroys not only the lives of the people you claim to be trying to save, but it destroys those who weren't really in danger in addition to introducing an unparalleled level of violence in the now black market for said product.
What, are you going to start putting people in prison for the rest of their lives for possession of sugar? I can't even imagine the thought process in your head that creates that argument and thinks it has any form of validity. I'm AMAZED you didn't post anonymously, because that is so stupid it has to be a troll.
You ever have an alcoholic steal from you to buy alcohol? They did during Prohibition. Just like crack addicts. Because alcohol was so expensive, they went bankrupt.
You also totally ignore the reality of Portugal, where all drugs have been decriminalized. Crime went down there, not up.
Uhhh, people don't use meth because they want to. They use it because other "hard" drugs are too expensive. Cocaine is good enough for any junkie, and if it isn't, then there is always heroine. And they used to be sold in drug stores. With no prescription. Labelled for use on children.
Also, Portugal has proven that there is no correlation between legality and use. If anything, it is an inverse relationship.
Legalization will bring more help for addicts AND lower prices enough that addicts don't go broke from their habit AND increase the quality and safety of those drugs. You'll see meth disappear, replaced with high quality coke and heroine.
You seem like a very bitter person. Perhaps you live in a disarmed area and are under constant threat of death from criminal thus who *GASP* don't obey the law.
Also, good luck at tilting at the windmill of removing 200 million guns from American hands. I'm sure that won't result in a massive upspike in violence and/or something much worse, like civil war or holocaust.
So by that logic, should sword makers be put in jail too? What about people who make fancy knives? Regular knives?
Guns aren't made to kill people. They are made to eject a payload at high velocity. 99.999% of the use of such weapons does not include anything illegal. This means shooting at the range (yes, shooting is fun, and is a nice stress reliever), hunting, and killing varmints. Self defense is a 99.99% passive use (ie you don't need bullets flying out of the barrel to be protected).
The fact is that all of these things have illegal uses, but they have a lot MORE perfectly legal ones. If you want to shut down gun manufacturers, then you have to shut down just about everything with a dual use. Also, no more bittorrent, you evil, evil pirates.
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That's called collusion, and is very, VERY rare in markets that don't have artificially high barriers to entry. How hard do you think it is to start a new oil company today vs a hundred years ago?
Yeah, having the price drop by 90% over the course of their monopoly, which was enforced only by the superiority of their product and the efficiency of their business practices (else their competition, which had 10% of the market share, would have taken over).
Honestly, it's like these kids go to high school and just accept whatever crap is fed to them as fact.
Except that when those guys got into power, it went from a world full of people dying of starvation to being practically unheard of.
Why do the socialists never remember what life was like PRIOR to the industrial revolution? Why do they think people lined up for factory jobs if those jobs were so much worse than their lives on the farm?
*says the guy who has never set foot on a farm in his life.
You prepared to pay $20/lb for lettuce? Because that is what it costs when it's picked by Americans.
Right, those guys eventually go out of business, while the ones that pay for quality remain. If there are long term consequences to bad behavior, then those consequences will be suffered by those to behave badly. Those extra costs will build up for the cheapskates, but not for those who pay for quality.
If people aren't hiring you, it is probably because the extra costs of having crappy programmers isn't as high as you think it is, or because they simply DON'T HAVE THE MONEY to pay to do it right, and they will flounder themselves into bankruptcy in a few years anyways. Not sure I would want to work for a company on the verge of bankruptcy, myself.
Right, so let's shut down the last places that people can work because they don't pay enough.
What is your problem with poor people?
That is called a per diem, and it is not taxable so long as it is below a certain limit.
Except we don't tax wealth, we tax income.
Any locality that tries to tax wealth sees immediate and mostly irreversible capital flight, and their economy is totally destroyed in the process.
It's like liberals don't have the ability to learn anything that they haven't been subjected to themselves. These things are going on in Europe RIGHT NOW, and the results have been nothing short of unmitigated disaster. And they aren't even done with the second act yet.
No, that isn't disingenuous. Every argument justifying theft by force is, though.
You tell em, Komrade. Make glorious revolution for making of proper economics education upon these capitalist swine. Worked out well for us in every other instance in history. Note I said "us" as in party members, not the people. Those guys really got screwed!
God, don't give them ideas. They could make ANYTHING a taxable benefit if they make this taxable. Am I receiving a taxable benefit from the US government by using their roads? For existing in a space defended by the military? How much is that worth? They'll probably say it's worth a hundred thousand dollars per capita and have use pay a few tens of thousands of extra dollars a year.
He (the professor) didn't. He has simply been on the receiving end of the student loan bubble.
If EVERYONE is a government leech, what does that say about our government?
90% of GDP is the level beyond which additional debt causes crisis. This is historical fact, and happens EVERY SINGLE TIME. The US has passed 100% debt to GDP.
It's only a matter of time now.
You are retarded. You deserve what you are about to get. I would weep for the future, but you and others who think like you have ensured that there won't be one.
Every time I hear "fair share", it's from someone who doesn't pay nearly as much in taxes as the people they are bitching about.
How about we bitch about cutting spending rather than finding new ways to make people pay more to our genocidal government?
Some types of liquor will destroy your life immediately. Those types of liquor were widely available during prohibition, but you have to break into a laboratory or a chemical plant to find them now. Why do that when you can get just as drunk much more safely off something from a liquor store?
Nevermind that most of the alcohol consumed in the US is in the form of beer and wine, where those things practically disappeared during Prohibition. That is the exact metaphor for this situation, and state worshippers totally ignore it to justify their insanity.
Bender, is that you? Kill all humans?
BRILLIANT!
Wait, wait, wait. So you are saying that you A. think that drugs destroy lives as an inherent property of the drugs and B. you have an interest in taking them?
No amount of laws fixes crazy, bub.
How is his life destroyed? By taking the drug, or by being put in prison?
"Stop liking what I don't like" is not a reason for prohibition. There are LOTS of addictive things that are perfectly legal. Making them illegal is what causes the most harm. Sure, alcohol may ruin a few lives, but putting alcoholics AND social drinkers in prison almost by definition does more harm because it destroys not only the lives of the people you claim to be trying to save, but it destroys those who weren't really in danger in addition to introducing an unparalleled level of violence in the now black market for said product.
STOP COMPARING DRUGS AND FOOD, YOU TWIT.
What, are you going to start putting people in prison for the rest of their lives for possession of sugar? I can't even imagine the thought process in your head that creates that argument and thinks it has any form of validity. I'm AMAZED you didn't post anonymously, because that is so stupid it has to be a troll.
You ever have an alcoholic steal from you to buy alcohol? They did during Prohibition. Just like crack addicts. Because alcohol was so expensive, they went bankrupt.
You also totally ignore the reality of Portugal, where all drugs have been decriminalized. Crime went down there, not up.
Uhhh, people don't use meth because they want to. They use it because other "hard" drugs are too expensive. Cocaine is good enough for any junkie, and if it isn't, then there is always heroine. And they used to be sold in drug stores. With no prescription. Labelled for use on children.
Also, Portugal has proven that there is no correlation between legality and use. If anything, it is an inverse relationship.
Legalization will bring more help for addicts AND lower prices enough that addicts don't go broke from their habit AND increase the quality and safety of those drugs. You'll see meth disappear, replaced with high quality coke and heroine.
You seem like a very bitter person. Perhaps you live in a disarmed area and are under constant threat of death from criminal thus who *GASP* don't obey the law.
Also, good luck at tilting at the windmill of removing 200 million guns from American hands. I'm sure that won't result in a massive upspike in violence and/or something much worse, like civil war or holocaust.
"Stop liking what I don't like!"
So by that logic, should sword makers be put in jail too? What about people who make fancy knives? Regular knives?
Guns aren't made to kill people. They are made to eject a payload at high velocity. 99.999% of the use of such weapons does not include anything illegal. This means shooting at the range (yes, shooting is fun, and is a nice stress reliever), hunting, and killing varmints. Self defense is a 99.99% passive use (ie you don't need bullets flying out of the barrel to be protected).
The fact is that all of these things have illegal uses, but they have a lot MORE perfectly legal ones. If you want to shut down gun manufacturers, then you have to shut down just about everything with a dual use. Also, no more bittorrent, you evil, evil pirates.