the job of the government in the economy is to prevent people from being defrauded and to settle contract disputes and such. it isnt to fix prices...
you arent listening. collusion will not happen if the market is free, because the world is a big place and people want to make profits more than...
lincoln will be lonely if no one drinks with him.
i dunno, i guess i dont put alot of stock in scientific factors like how much a parent defines his child as "whiny". did they use a professional...
now this should be filed in the record book for pointless parsing of definitions.
exactly. this is what i have been trying to get across forever. making a poor person richer only hurts the rich person if the rich person was...
to discount the results, all you relly need to know is that somebody was doing a study on whiny people in politics. people who have brains and can...
you are talking about inflation, not wealth. money can be devalued if everyone has it. but wealth cant. if you have a nice house, and the...
oh yeah? how many people in new orleans died of starvation? were they trading loaves of bread for diamonds and cars? besides, it wasnt free trade...
also you are completely missing the point. you appear think some people are rich because other people are poor, that isnt the case. thats why i...
depends on the way you define value. air has value to me, but i am not gonna pay for it. right, no point in getting into definitions.
right, and we dont really have the resources! .we lack cheap labor and cannot easily compete. so lets leave the food production to whoever can...
like food, mercedeses (is that the plural?) have actual value. you can drive a mercedes. obviously there is a lot of fake conspicuous consumption...
tell that to a mercedes salesman. his products have value because people are NOT poor. you simply do not understand.
or japan for that matter, who imports most of their food. would you be scared living in a country as rich as japan because the food was being...
so if you lived in a place like hong kong, with virtually no farmers or farmable land(but very wealthy), you would be in perpetual fear?
you dont seem to grasp the concept of capital and wealth either. if bill gates wanted to, he could own more food than anyone in the history of the...
you cant seem to get it through your head that if foreigners get more weathly, it isnt at our expense. when we have access to cheap labor and...
liberal parents call their whiny liberal kids "sensitive".
we are not working in a zero sum game. by allocating recources efficiently (i. e. getting labor where it is the cheapest) we increase efficiency....
