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Comment Re:He is largely correct (Score 1) 97

Indeed my video-game example kills Econ-101 .... as the same argument can be made for any commodity ( all women knit socks ... all men carve "whopper-ploppers" etcetc ), Yes, Picasso and Rembrandt ( my Ohio knife-maker?) are different. --- and a vast minority from which no rule may be extracted. "Native" scarcity has been fictitious(99%)  since  cave paintings , the bronze age & Archimedes. Social scarcity ( harums / monopoly / patents / 'letters-of-marque' / etc ) of-course follows the sword or gun-barrel.

Comment Re:He is largely correct (Score 1) 97

Your human-factors analysis really sucks. Nothing is free; everything has a cost and every "needed" item .. like air, protein, tools may be considered as having a "forced" cost ... that is you die if you cannot get those items. So it's your own human biology that does the forcing. Randerz may puke at that analysis, but they're toxic scum anyway.

Comment Re:He is largely correct (Score 1) 97

At least we agree on something. Where I differ is refusing to associate cost/price with value. For example. A computer gamr-boi will spend outrageous amounts on a digital game ... that's the cost/price of the game. But value=need is determined by removing the item and seeing the effect on the buyer. If the latest GTO version  is removed from a gamr-boi then the result to him is ... nothing happens, but a small temporary serotonin change. Thus the value of the game = zero while the cost/price remains at $100 ! Understand ?

Comment Re: North America datacenter? (Score 1) 120

by noshellswill (#66212786) Attached to: Polestar Banned From Selling Cars In US From Model Year 2027
Yep. To each his own ( medical items excepted. Just think of all the job created world-wide if every consumer item were locally hand-crafted. Not air-craft-carriers of-course, but  for example the "string":  CPU/GPU/MOBO/RAM /HD/SSD ... or dishes/plates/cups/glasses ... you get the picture.

Comment systematically unsafe (Score 0) 61

Recently, been watching lots of airplane crash videos ... for reason. What strikes me is the casual insecurity of commercial air-travel product. Not average behavior of aircraft, pilots or airports ... those numbers look impressive ...  but the  detailed triviality of issues sufficient to crash any airplane anytime & anywhere. I advise you ...  probe a  hundred airliner crashes; listen to commentary; you will see that passenger  safety is NOT and never has been a primary concern.  Nothing special about cracks in Airbus wings.

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