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Comment Re: Understandable (Score 1) 78

Is GDP real? What are the error bars and why don't they report them?

"You must wait a little bit (2 minutes) before using this resource; please try again later."

Is there a physical constraint on the resource or is it an imposed arbitrary constraint that cynically uses the idea of scarce resources as an excuse, when actually the scarcity is entirely man-made?

Comment Re: You can say that about 3D-TV, bitcoin, etc (Score 1) 78

What is the impact on GDP of smartphones, and should we even be using GDP growth as a criteria of success when it produces lower fertility, higher suicides, and its error margins are so wide anyway that economists, intellectually dishonestly, don't even report it?

What if GDP is a totem that only has meaning because economists believe in it and get everyone to hallucinate its reality?

Comment Re: Good. (Score 0) 112

What if we all just blocked at our clients what we find offensive, instead of letting mods decide fof us?

Why does banning on social media make me more depressed than anything prople actually say? What if I resent the taking away of my freedom to respond to (or, lazily, just block) posts I disagree with?

Comment Re: Interesting...but.... (Score 0) 41

Do you think they could be the marketing execs that administer iPhone prices based on anything other than supply and demand?

Or maybe they could become economists denying that anything other than supply and demand can significantly affect price, thereby conning users into thinking they have to pay so much due to scarcity, when really it is because greed?

Comment Re: You don't have to be a malefactor to get bann (Score 0) 83

Do I have freedom to self-express, or does it cut too closely, shredding the careful layers of rationalizations you've constructed, such that banning me is the easiest way of avoiding the uncomfirtable cognitive dissonance my posts give rise to?

Am I an inconvenient truth, best silenced before my memes spread to your precious children or loved ones?

Is your system so fragile that mere words on the internet are a vulnerability?

Why don't you legalize suicide to provide me a lehal way out of your distasteful system which bans my attempts to point out the glaring flaws that have ruined my life, personally?

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