Consider Coca Cola and Pepsi Cola. They make simple products: drinks made out of water, a secret syrup, carbon dioxide plus aluminum, plastic, and (mo...
Of course I am aware that industry and business has changed. Only 9% of American workers labor in factories. Larger percentages work in transportation...
making the world safe for capitalism... The Marching Song of the Covert Battalions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-yRKfD2GIk Here we are, seeking o...
No, the real question is "Which side are you on?" Which side are you on? They say in Harlan County there are no neutrals there. You'll either be union...
And how does the Hinduja family have control over production and distribution? They do it the old fashioned way. They own it. Regular Mother Theresa's...
Where good detective and police work are most needed is in the violent slums, where detectives and police don't like working very much. It is unaccept...
Maybe Sapientia can, but I can't guarantee that wealth distribution would not decrease the standard of living. Taking all the wealth of the rich and d...
Part of the problem is that the extreme positions of the NRA have driven liberals to take 180º opposite positions--perhaps in contradiction to what th...
They won't be richer than your plutocrat, and after forced redistribution, your plutocrat won't be rich and will have to get a real job. He might want...
The rich get richer because the poor get poorer. The enormous concentration of wealth among a very small number of people distorts the flow of capital...
Well, yes, to some extent it is a question of worth or value. A brownie and cookie operation might have a value of $1m, $2m, or $100 million, and in c...
Sure. One of the reasons Apple has so much cash (250 billion dollars) is because I, and lots of other people, found their goods and services appealing...
I wouldn't know -- I haven't visited your hypothetical scenario. However, the point remains: Just because your hypothetical business succeeded financi...
You made a million dollars because you externalized the costs stemming from your business. Your homemade brownie operation was never inspected, and yo...
Yes, the laws are on the books, but are honored in the breach fairly often. It may not be the case that one company, for instance, controls all televi...
Wealth and services which workers produced. Executives do not produce. They are there to insure profitability for stockholders. Wealthy stockholders, ...
Property is theft. Highly paid executives, receiving perhaps $40 to 100+ million dollars in compensation, are way way way more fucking thieves than th...
Traumatic brain injury, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, alzheimer, and such are not all-or-nothing conditions. They generally occur on a scale from ...
No, we don't have value added taxes here, as far as I know. Employers and employees here both pay social security taxes (Federal Insurance Contributio...
A sales tax, which can be targeted and vary with different products, seems rational to me, but why collect it at the check out? Why not back up 1 step...
One solution would be to compel holders of huge wealth to invest their capital in productive activities (and not in currency or like trading) or have ...
I would say "life is meaningless" by which I mean: The universe does not provide a ready-made meaning. I also don't mean that we start at Square One w...
Thomas Kuhn, Michel Foucault, and Ludwig Wittgenstein are entitled to their own opinions; they are not entitled to their own facts. Per Daniel Patrick...
Please send me all of your fictive commodity (bank transfers are convenient) as it uselessly accumulates at AguCorp. The problem with a small number o...
If printing more money to finance government operations devalues the coin of the realm, isn't that a form of taxation? Unless a government engages in ...
I have no idea whether your paper deserved its score, but producing good, clear writing can be difficult. Don't despair -- practice will result in imp...
See, Henri, believers have the word of God that tells them what they should do. The ONLY thing believers need to worry about (with respect to God) is ...
Henri, Henri. I have no objection to either the belief or the disbelief in Gods. It is quite possible that the gods, or God, exist. But from what I ca...
Yes, very good idea. I think most people have striven to do that. Of course it requires an expenditure of money. Most of money which made my work poss...
"Here" is no different than everywhere. There are crooks everywhere. So, how do you protect yourself? Through established legal institutions or do you...
Why doesn't everyone become an entrepreneur like Agustino of the giant AGUCORP? Are they all stupid, fat, lazy, addicted, welfare dependent, uneducate...
A handful of industrious people like (not mentioning all the well known current rich folks) Samuel Crompton (Spinning Mule) Great Britain Thomas Newco...
You mean, "Bag your baguette and git. "Get" as in "get going" is too close to proper. "Git" has the eau d'outré you are looking for. Just a suggestion...
Yes. By official forensic psychiatric definitions, many (not all) are functioning normally. They may be very bad people, but bad people can be mentall...
You are not being 'simplistic' in thinking that mass murderers must be mentally ill. Most people think mass murderers are either crazy or evil. I supp...
This seems a bit anachronistic. Are you suggesting that Jesus was a contemporary of Moses? If not, which mass exodus from Egypt are you referencing? M...
I read an article in which a forensic psychiatrist who had examined a number of mass killers, said he found that by most standards, at least half of t...
Of course, we can, we should. But it might not make any difference There are around 150 - 250 million guns already in the hands of Americans (dependin...
There is a good article on Why Are Non-Believers Turning to Their Bibles? in Quillette which I recommend. Actually, i'm ordering you to read it. Stude...
Ok, ok, so I didn't say anything about myself. I am a very-small-town-midwesterner, which I regret in ever so many ways, but once conceived, it was to...
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