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I'm with Saint Cy on this one. You guys I have trouble with the idea that adding diversity to art is a problem in and of itself. It's the corporate mandates that are the underlying issue. Corporate mandated changes to the creative voice are, most of the time, going to result in a ********...

AOC Speech at the DNC: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oeuh-w9Uihw

Was tailgating PJF on the way to work today

But RandyForRubio found a guy on Twitter who said 5 companies had no EBITDA increase in the last 5 years. Edit: I'm just poking fun don't get mad at me. According to the Harris campaign, they only wanted to go after a few bad actors for price gouging. They haven't given specifics yet.

This is the reality. The Biden Admin's border policy was a continuation and escalation of the Trump admin's border policy. And the dems were more than willing to make it even more draconian. It's funny because on one hand, I hate that the dems, who heavily criticized the harsh border policy...

None of the companies in this oligopoly scenario have to actually collude to price fix. Through mechanisms such as price leadership and incoming technologies like Dynamic Pricing, they don't have to communicate directly so technically what they're doing is completely legal. But it also...

You should thank the guy he copied it from.

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No problem! my tone is almost always condescending too. My initial response to your post was more of a piggyback to say some things that I wanted to say and not a direct antagonistic response to you in particular. I could've done without quoting your post. I have beef with the whole...

Meh. I'm not concerned with your lack of imagination. The arguments against patents are many and compelling. Thank you for the word choice policing. Feel free to use "aren't fit to survive" in place of of "deserve"

A little condescending, don't you think? Commodity markets aren't magically exempt from price shenanigans even if the econ101 textbook tells you they are. I'd say they are more resistant to it because of their fungibility and, of course, huge bargaining weight from buyers, something individual...

Sure patents are considered to be an asset on the books and are given value. It's fairly obvious to me that a distinction can be made between that and the means to produce. Patents are only valuable inasmuch as they prevent others from producing the same. Overall, I don't think they're good...

No it does. You're right!

Economy of scale is good for efficiency. Why not have one company just do everything then, and it'll be democratically controlled so they can't screw us over. We'll call it the US government. Once again, an Oligopoly is more than enough to engage in anti-consumer, non-competitive price...

Patents for pharmaceutical products, AKA life-saving drugs, are anti-consumer. If you develop a revolutionary new drug, you get the F2M advantage which is incentive enough. The idea that allowing companies to just charge as much as they want as long as their patent is in place is insane to...

It might be better to say there is high demand for cheap labor. Companies love to utilize undocumented immigrants to fulfill that demand. We should document them, or alternatively, you could aggressively prosecute any company that hires undocumented workers. If illegal immigration is an...

The WP and CNN are mainstream media. They don't have a left or right bias. They have a sensationalist bias combined with incentive to protect capital. If the Republican party and MSM are going after Harris for her "communist" policies, This is just proof positive that working-class...

I know @fishonjazz had a good post where he was talking about his current situation and that most people need to work to better themselves. Here's what I'll say to that effect. On an individual level, the above is sound advice, every person should try their best to improve their situation...

Yes. It's called price leadership. Essentially collusion without the need for actually colluding. Food, as it is necessary for survival, has unlimited demand. Once an oligopoly exists price competition goes away, and people have to eat. They can raise the prices all they want and people are...

What did I miss? The backlash after speaking at the RNC? or the surprised pikachu face he has as Trump cozies up to union-busting foes.