Price goes up, there's no realistic alternative, people buy less of other things. That's the reality. Economics only works if there's an alternative and there isn't one. Public transport sucks and bikes and electric cars are extremely impractical. What alternative sources of energy are drivers going to switch to? Or airlines? Or anyone else who depends on fossil fuels?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_pen

Can you do bulk delete easily on the iPhone mail client yet? I wanted to clear a load of spurious notifications from my work iPhone back in 2011 and was told that no-one needed to do that by a load of idiot fanbois and I should be happy to have to delete 6000 emails one by one.

What does that have to do with anything?

Given that devices that you can sideload apps on are not banned in China I'm not sure where you're going with this. Apple would have to remove the app from itunes but the user, if their own property didn't lock them out, would be able to obtain it from another source.

Of course if Apple didn't prevent users from loading whatever they like this would be a complete non-issue. This is only possible because Apple control what their users are allowed to do with their device, unless you're willing to invalidate your warranty or pay them an annual fee for the privilege.

Businesses' primary role is the efficient distribution of capital. Limited liability is not required for that. Limited liability is where the state protects the business owners from any ruinous consequences of their actions. What you're saying is that they should get that huge privilege but should be allowed to behave in any way they see fit irrespective of any detrimental effects on society.

Given that society has granted them the enormous privilege of limited liability it's not unreasonable to expect them to serve the public good, or at the very least not make the world a worse place to live.

Someone with an ID that low probably isn't all that young. I created this one 13 years ago.

So then how is it the government's fault? The people involved were in no way forced to do any of this stupid stuff.

So the government sent in the military and forced these people to do these obviously incredibly stupid and wrong things?

You mean the bundling of bad debts together with good debts and calling them all good? The credit rating agencies all declaring these disasters as AAA? The selling on of debts so no-one had any interest in whether the person getting the loan could pay it back? This was all Clinton's fault? It wasn't the fault of the people who actually did these things?

I'm well aware of what you're saying but I see this time and again on here where someone says they have an issue and they are immediately denounced as a liar, shill or idiot. It just gets a bit tiresome.

I've never seen it either but that doesn't mean it hasn't happened to the OP.