I don't think niches are so neatly compartmentalized as you envision. If I have a smartphone with a "good enough" camera, I'll be less likely to buy a better camera even if I know the quality is not on par.

And it stopped happening, didn't it?

Funny, it was just a little while ago when we (the west) were all demonizing China for their one child policy.

Let's not forget buses. Mass transportation isn't exactly reducing wear on roads.

Just privatize all roads. And if you can't pay the tolls or choose not to, then you are totally free to not go anywhere.

It's not that artists are unaware, but that they have poor bargaining positions. When they have attained some fame, their bargaining position improves somewhat, but the labels will be pushing for the best new thing.

pros:
You get to shape your kid into a little version of yourself. He/she ends up accepting your worldview as the truth.
cons:
You get to shape your kid into a little version of yourself. He/she ends up accepting your worldview as the truth.

Looking at the survey results, it's clear that the question pertaining to DNA was giving in the context of other questions on governmental policies. If I answered the survey, I would have answered based on what I thought the researcher meant by the question, and not the literal text of the question. When I saw the question, I would ask myself, should I be a smartass and answer the question as written, or should I assume the researcher means to ask, "Mandatory labels on foods containing modified or isolated DNA"

I can't remember that far back. It must've been well before the sinking of the USS Maine.

eh, red herring.

As long as we have money begetting money, we will have bubbles.

When making something safer, we can expect more lawsuits, not less, as we might naively expect. It doesn't matter if we can statistically show that a new technology saves lives. If auto manufacturers put this feature into their vehicles, suddenly it is their fault when the feature fails to prevent an accident, or causes causes an accident where one would not have occurred. Previously, the driver would be liable.

Those aren't paradoxes. So space is created. How is that a paradox? Did someone say space is not allowed to be created?
So energy is created. That violates conservation of energy, but conservation of energy is simply a law that we formulated from experience, and later proved using Noether's theorem by assuming that the laws of physics are time-invariant. Well, it's not valid to extrapolate from our small-scale experiences to the universe, and the laws of physics probably aren't time-invariant at cosmological scales.
Nobody really knows how to calculate the energy of the vacuum, and that's why we have to use renormalization. The 10^120 figure is really a very rough ballpark estimate using dimensional analysis. There's not any solid theory to back it up.