And when that something that goes wrong is a virus, you will curse the day you were born.

Well done for pointing that one out, though. :D

The price you pay at the pump doesn't include what you pay in tax dollars for the US military to protect our oil imports, or the terrorism that this breeds.

The price you pay at the pump doesn't include the pollution we all suffer as a result of burning gasoline. There's global warming, for one, which has resulted in the recent spat of horrible weather, record droughts, and poor harvests. Of course Republicans still deny that there's any such thing as pollution, to say nothing of global warming. They think smog is a figment of moonbat tree hugging liberals' imagination...

http://www.dylanratigan.com/2011/08/03/whats-the-real-cost-of-gas-in-america/
Actual cost of a gallon of gas = $10.70 to $15.70 / gallon

Try moving to China to get a job. I dare you. Good luck with that. Then come back and tell me how artificial those borders are.

What is the point of cracking open a science textbook when you are going to be competing with people in Asia who can produce the same level of genius for pennies on the dollar?

I don't care what you can learn here in America, someone in China can learn the same thing and apply that knowledge for far lower wages than you.

These people are willing to live in cages. Literally. Look.
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/11/21/hong-kong-citizens-living-cages-literally/

Is how to speak a Slavic language or Hindu.

The second skill to learn is how to get a passport.

Teaching them how to react PROPERLY when their fight or flight response kicks in.

You know, like when your adrenaline levels hit 125 heart beats per minute, and your body goes into its first stage of panic. Things go real weird with the mind at that point. People freeze up or go psycho. Their ability to make rational decisions and think out their subsequent reactions plummets dramatically. Which means everything you just taught them goes right out of the window when a predator jumps in their face. Let's not even talk about when a crisis drives you to 150bpm or higher.

You can't teach people how to adapt to this inside of a day, and without being able to adapt to that 125 bpm level 1 panic mode, anything you teach them is fairly useless.

both Capitalism and Communism are doomed?

All companies regard employees as a pain in the ass. Going by the capitalist model, all workers are essentially profit-stealing overhead. Ideally a company with no employees, run entirely by machines, is the most profitable.

Basic economics works against the working class.

They'll have no US or European market to sell anything to. I wonder how Agile and Scrum will help them then!

Actions trump ideas. Or better yet, actions are ideas. Stated ideas mean nothing; your actions say everything.

Just so you know.

so much as you need a dictionary definition of a sociopath or a psychopath.

Take this definition and compare it to what a corporation does.

he also has a head on his shoulders. You should, like, try it, you might like it.

The argument that monopolies raise the price of cell phone service is well-supported.

Cell phone service voice and data plans are extraordinarily high in the U.S., Japan and Canada, compared to other nations. America is way above the international average. We're the most expensive when it comes to texting. For the whole package of cell phone service America and Canada are the most expensive. Guess which countries keeps coming up as among the most expensive? The U.S. and Canada.

http://newamerica.net/publications/policy/an_international_comparison_of_cell_phone_plans_and_prices

As for PC prices, the number of competitors had very little effect compared to the power of Moore's Law. Had we had more competitors, PC prices might be 25% less right now. A huge part of what we pay for PCs is Windows. If we had more competition there we certainly would see lower prices.

So yes, oligopolies mean higher prices. And Jesus WAS/is in fact a liberal. :D

How about us BROWN PEOPLE in the United States? They're suffering the worst because of jobs lost to other countries.

And when the US Dollar collapses because of all this debt, where will your "brown people" overseas get any jobs? America is just about everyone's biggest export market, when we can't buy your goods or services... whoops.