What? No, the problem is with the cards. The "reader" already is just an electrical connector: a surface mount socket with spring-loaded pins. The reason they can't make the connector smaller is because the contact layout on the card is huge.
Why would they lower their prices, unless forced to?
Because the current media prices are almost certainly above the market clearing price (evidenced by market research, retailers' complaints, and the basic fact that the film/music studios are willing to produce more content at the current price level than households are willing to consume.) A competent CEO would lower their prices to make more money.
Adding taxes increases the price of a good. Increasing price causes a decrease of demand. In order to return to a profit-maximizing price, firms must then decrease the prices of goods (and reduce output*.) The firm's share of the tax is the amount they need to lower the price. The household's share of the tax is the cost of the tax, minus the price decrease.
Households never pay the entire amount of any sales tax, because demand always responds to price. Arguably, households don't even pay the entire amount of income taxes either, because the supply of labour responds in a similar way.
(* An astute reader will note that, due to the reduction of supply and demand, the total cost of the tax to the economy is greater than the amount which is actually paid to the government.)
A Brit invented HTTP. I wish you'd stop stealing it.
(by which I mean I wish you would stop posting.)
I read the full article and I still can't tell what the efficiency is.
From a macroeconomic perspective? In an article about one company's decisions about inputs and savings? Oh, really?
haha. Yeah, marketing is a big part of the reason too.
CS degree definitely counts as engineering (for employability, at least until SE accreditation is taken seriously.) RN is a professional degree.
13% of Americans are called the "working poor." These are often single parent retail workers who need to work several jobs in order to survive. When people talk about poor people who do not have the time or energy to prepare meals, we are talking about these people. We are not talking about your family.
Since subtlety is obviously lost on someone with your vast intellect, let me be clear: you are a terrible person and you have no idea what you are talking about.
This advice works great right up until the new grads reduce the clearing wage in [x] fad trade/technical diploma. This is what happened to make english and biology "bullshit degrees" after all.
Why discriminate though? Every undergraduate degree is bullshit. Outside of Engineering and BFA you aren't going to get hired to do anything close to what you actually studied unless you either have a strong jaw or a rich dad.
A part of the reason these meals are so unhealthy is that they are deficient in certain nutrients our bodies require in order to regulate food intake. Lean Cuisine is better for you than Hungry-Man, sure, but a
Yes, that's right. The alternative to my thesis, of course, is that poor, obese people must simply be too lazy to want to be rich and athletic.
We are saying the same things, but I don't think you understand what it means.
Actually I'm pretty sure Rakishi meant to make a classist diatribe that calls lazy people too stupid to use refrigerators and microwaves.
Guess I wasn't paying enough attention!
This is precisely the issue. Prepared frozen microwaveable meals are attractive to people with a low SES because they store longer (less time spent shopping) and they take less time to prepare. Those meals are also among the most unhealthy things you will find in a grocery store.
Yeah. All for the opportunity cost of one of those parents being at home to cook three square meals a day.
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