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Comment Have they tried selling subscriptions? (Score 1) 25

Maybe this is a dumb question, but have the newspapers in California tried selling subscriptions to their readers?

I mean I'm sure they have tons of readers who really want to read their texts. I'm sure they'd be happy to pay for it, if only the newspapers would think to ask them for it.

Comment Re: Why? (Score 1) 144

If the all supply of product X is renter model, and there is a demand for a non-renter-model, then in a free market you can go out and create a company that produces a non-renter-model to meet the demand for that, and then you become wealthy because you are tapping a previously untapped market.

See free market always makes sense, if you just think a little harder.

Comment Re: Why? (Score 1) 144

> the West ended what had been the very common practice of toll roads hundreds of years ago

You are actually not aware of the vast network of toll roads that exist in the US then?

>good luck having the type of educated populace we have today with only private schools.

Do you believe public schools are on par with private schools in terms of quality of education?
Do you believe there is something magic about forcibly confiscated money that makes it more effective at paying for a school building, teacher salaries etc, vs voluntary funding of the same?

Comment Re:Great idea, in theory (Score 1) 144

>So anything that has consumer demand is art? You didn't see how completely stupid that sounded when you wrote it?

Anything can be art, it just depends on who you ask.

> "You'll never get something that isn't trade discouraging toll roads if you leave road building to be paid for on a voluntary basis for instance"

What are you on about? There are tons of well maintained toll roads all over the world, that many people gladly pay to use.

Comment Re:Great idea, in theory (Score 1) 144

> What on earth are you basing that claim on?

Conservative estimate of number of women who owns or wants to own a Gucci bag.

>So I don't want any of my taxes going towards paying for sending our military into our cities amongst a shit ton of other things our government is doing right now. It's totally practical for our government to accommodate all that, right?

Certainly not. I think that should all be done on a voluntary basis as well. You should be able to opt out of that, just like I should be able to opt out of paying for anything Ukraine-war-related or welfare-related or anything else I don't want to pay for.

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