When cable first came along it was mostly just the over the air channels (and all the ads they carried), but supposedly with fewer reception problems.

Stuff like HBO, Showtime, et cetera, came along, that were optional for extra money, and those channels were the ones bragging about no commercials.

Of course that was several decades ago, and a lot has changed since then.

So Myanmar is the metric version of Burma?

...would be my guess.

...who immediately thought of Harry Harrison's "I Always Do What Teddy Says"?

Because these businesses have no competition that will underprice them by a bit and take all their customers?

You can tinker a little with the law of supply and demand, like this would, but you can't repeal it altogether.

To be fair, eventually that $15 won't have the same buying power, just as the $1.60 per hour 1968 Federal Minimum Wage no longer has the buying power it did back then (4 to 5 gallons of gas or packs of cigarettes, or 16 soft drinks or candy bars, or 10 comic books, or 2 paperback books, or a fast food meal for 2, or movie tickets for 2, etc.)

But that's eventually, not instantaneously, and in the meantime, it can do some good and stimulate local economies.

Wasn't it an economist who said something like "In the long term, we're all dead."?

It would most likely have some influence on my thinking about him and about the regard in which his party held him then and later.

Did they also sacrifice Goldwater to Johnson to pave the way for the return of Nixon?

In fairness, the point is made that the price is printed on the cover so he can't exceed that.

There's a comic book store up there, or maybe it's in San Francisco, that's complaining, but another way of looking at it is that there are actually too many comic book stores in the area for the demand and that the workers have been subsidizing the customers before now.

I'm not saying the store owner might not have an actual problem, but apparently he's not anticipating any increase in demand for his merchandise despite more people in the community having more money available to spend.

If your store is easier for someone to get to than is Wal-Mart or the like, or they like the service better than waiting half an hour for an "associate" to happen by, maybe with that extra per hour in their pockets some of these people will decide it's worth it to go to your place instead and spend the time saved with the family they see so little of because of working all the time.

People on the low end of the pay scales who get extra money spend it, which boosts the local economy, which means more jobs as more staff are hired to handle the increased business, which means even more spending which boosts the local economy which means more jobs....

It's why massive borrowing at near zero interest rates to spend on massive amounts of infrastructure repair and creation would actually be a good idea, because more people would have paychecks to spend locally.

Did they let Reagan in on that when he was running in '76?

Or just keep him in the dark?

Now where would the entertainment value in that be?

Finally something you kids can agree on!

You did see that DR was using the sarcasm font, right?

Telecom companies are famous for *making* promises.

Making good on them, not so much.

They'd have probably gotten around to your area about the same time as your first Social Security check.

He won't be too old to sit on some corporate Boards of Directors.