That's an entirely in-apt analogy unless you believe Ubisoft is a government agency empowered to confiscate goods imported w/o paying an import duty.

We may have to disagree on that one. It tends to be the conspicuous consumers that get hit first. The 30% isn't usually comfortable enough to consume too conspicuously.

I'm not saying that anyone would have a walk in the park during an uprising (not even those with the picthforks). But note that I was primarily calling out yet another temporarily embarrassed millionaire in his own mind.

Over time, naturally. You do know how converging works, yes?

Consider Far Cry 3. Shipped 10 million copies, so that's $6 each for the development costs + $0.03 for the digital copy. That suggests the price to converge on is $6.03. Do you believe that has happened?

I'm fairly certain the NSA abuses couldn't have escaped his notice. The DEA is out of the bag now, let's see what happens...

Yes, but the news only reports on it if it is sports related. No Wall Street gate for example, even though the cheating is bigger, more blatant, more clearly deliberate, and does far more harm to the public.

Because there are much more profitable patented drugs now.

They have already been well paid to maintain those lines in the form of tax breaks, and grants of big wads of cash and monopoly.

Also, he ripped off people richer than himself. Had he stuck to raiding retirement funds, he would still be a free man.

There's also the brain dead employers that are just sure their dollar store will be swamped with customers because they have a sale of pool floaties scheduled and so all employees are to report on time or be fired. Naturally, they don't report themselves, they plan to phone it in.

A ban protects all of those people from artificially adverse consequences of behaving reasonably.

I never said it's a great thing for the peasants when it gets to that point. I said that when things get to that point, for better opr worse, the pitchforks come out.

But note that the Wikipedia list isn't the whole story. Sometimes the revolt isn't so much defeated as it is placated after it gets going. Sometimes, the well off align with the poor against the wealthy (for example, the American Revolution)

If you have 77K you are not all that likely to pick up the rest to be a millionaire. Sorry, it's just not all that likely.

If you are in the same boat as most others here, you mis-understand your place. Do you need an income to keep going or could you just up and quit tomorrow without worry?

I see you fell for the propaganda. You accepted a bogus definition of "Middle Class". If you need a paycheck to pay your bills, you are working class.

While many here are in a working class job that pays well, it is still working class.

There is nothing wrong with working class, but why would you align your politics to support those who could just stop doing anything right now and still never worry about income at the expense of yourself and your peers?

Entirely irrelevant. A healthy market will nevertheless push the sale cost towards the marginal cost of production. It will never reach it, but it will definitely approach it.

Or you did in the other direction. I find that more likely and that it better matches what everyone seems to be experiencing.