Agustino

Thanks for your response, and my apologies for the delayed response. I never suggested that the theist has a superior method of understanding God or t...

But sure, when you have a large operation, it's unavoidable not to do illegal things. A certain number of defects and errors, whether intentional or n...

That's a fallacy called selection bias in philosophy (or alternatively cherry picking). You've shown to be quite proficient at that. But you have to l...

Right, but that was mostly with regards to what I was responding to. So out of trillions of transactions, your evidence is that there are illegal prac...

>:O - I heard from some doctors that Viagra is good for old people in terms of heart health.

Evidence of what? I thought we were talking of artificially inflating demand (didn't know that was illegal) or artificially controlling supply. We cer...

I don't follow exactly what you mean here. Yes, I agree that mystical experiences are affective, and sentiment grounds faith - a religious skeptic wou...

I think that the problem is that some people cannot distinguish between religious beliefs and actions of certain groups, and political beliefs and act...

Well sure, if you count the presence of a brand name written on it as being a different T-shirt... As I said, technically different, but really the sa...

I don't mean it always happens for all products. In the example I gave though, it's absurd to say that the demand for one shirt is greater than the de...

They do want the shirt, at a price they can afford. I'm not talking about fictive and impossible wants now, but real ones. And I'm sure economists do ...

Again these are grey waters here. In some situations and in some forms this is illegal, in others, it isn't. Maybe we don't agree on it, but rather th...

I think it's wrong to think that this would represent demand. I think rather that poor people would want one at the price they can afford one. That's ...

And if you have a unique product, you're always a monopoly O:)

>:) - Peter Thiel wrote a good book on economic philosophy and monopolies called Zero To One.

Hmmm... are they really illegal, or are there in truth legal and illegal forms of the same thing? For example, take airplane seats. Business class get...

Thanks, I will be having a look :)

>:O

He doesn't have to, it's just basic psychology.

Take luxury clothing. If I'm a millionaire and someone wants to sell me a $10 dollar shirt, I won't even bother. But if they start talking of some uni...

Yes and no. It's also relative to what you perceive your own worth to be.

So take it like this. I receive 5 offers: website for $200 website for $1000 website for $2000 website for $5000 website for $10000 I don't even bothe...

Psychologically speaking, if my company is selling $1,000,000/product through that website, I will want that website to be good. I'm not a web develop...

Why is it better? It's as good technically and in all other ways as the other one. The only difference is that they will be advertising to different g...

And setting up multiple slightly different offers (the extra premium seats which cost $100,000 at football matches and the regular $10 seats) basicall...

Yeah that's what I meant to tell you. So this is another way in which some markets can operate, with transactions happening all over the actual demand...

No, in the case I'm describing there isn't one equilibrium point at all, but rather multiple equilibrium points, all along the demand curve. So some p...

It can't be supply and demand when the same good gets sold at about the same time to two different clients at wildly different price points. Supply an...

So my reputation, portfolio, past clients, testimonials, etc. etc. is only relevant in giving them the confidence that the website I design and develo...

And what determines what the customer is willing to pay? What matters is the value of the website to them - what results they can get with it. That's ...

I would agree with that. The whole efforts of sales and marketing are (1) to make sure the goods that are sold are as far away as they can be from com...

The issue is that for non-commodities real value is often not the same as market value. So how can we scientifically calculate this real value? For ex...

And this can actually be quantified scientifically. The "need" of the billionaire lost in the Sahara desert can be cashed out as the opportunity cost ...

Arbitrage is buying one good from one market, and selling onto a different market at a higher price. If I buy a water bottle at my local supermarket, ...

Sure there must be. And they're probably right usually. Practice beats theory in economics. But in my case, I have studied my fair share of economic t...

No, there's more expensive and less expensive types of bread. And as I previously said, the closer a product or service is to being a commodity, the m...

Sure, soon you're going to tell me that the invisible hand also puts money in my pocket :-} When people don't understand how something happens, they p...

Good! :D

:s - are you living on planet Earth, or Mars? :-d As far as I know, eating, going to the toilet, drinking, sleeping and working are all far more commo...

It's not necessarily morally good, but it can certainly be morally good. The high rate of divorce has to do primarily with the lack of moral education...

No, it may be absolutely necessary to spend that or maybe more if you can afford it on the wedding. If you're worth nothing when you marry a woman, yo...

I think antinatalism ought to be qualified as a mental illness O:)

Actually I think the tale of St. George slaying the dragon is factual. Is there something wrong with that? :B O:) >:)

And the one who does have the sales skills, well, he very likely will not work for me, or for anyone for that matter. He can make more than enough alo...

Generally to coffee shops. To sell to oil tank producers you don't have to be a good developer, you have to be a good salesman. Those are two differen...

Okay but then 10 hours of a software developer's time is worth more than 10 hours of a taxi driver's time? This does lead us to a situation where labo...

Bitter Crankus told me it's something to do with winter apparently >:O

They would be accepting that others, and even themselves, have mystical experiences. What they would deny is that those experiences yield knowledge. R...

Yes. Think of it like a religious David Hume, instead of an atheist David Hume. So they would take Scripture on faith, and would deny that mystical ex...

Yes, I see. However, from this description, you clearly land in the second camp, not in the first.