Agentk15
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| 29 Jul 2012 09:00 PM |
Earlier today i got this in the mail " Want to wake feeling good? Convert to Chirstianity" For a fee of $75! *face palm*
A few weeks earlier my repairman came over to fix my microwave and he said there was a strange substance inside causing an electrical disfunction, he charged me $300 to fix it. Instead, I repaired it myself, 2 minutes for FREE..................... By brushing it off.... |
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Plorpeg
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| 29 Jul 2012 09:05 PM |
| The repairman was trying to rip you off. You made a good choice my declining his lousy offer. |
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pepper0
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| 29 Jul 2012 09:15 PM |
Capitalism does throw this up time and time again.
Thats why you have to have competitors. The company trying to fix your car must have been a monopoly. |
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Avogadro
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| 29 Jul 2012 09:20 PM |
| Part of capitalism is not being a stupid consumer. |
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cowkiller
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| 29 Jul 2012 09:21 PM |
| Aren't microwaves cheaper than 300$! |
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jbg23
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| 29 Jul 2012 09:29 PM |
The company trying to fix your car must have been a monopoly.
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...wut. |
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pepper0
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| 29 Jul 2012 09:57 PM |
Yes, jbg a monopoly.
Companies tend to make things high priced because there is no competition, therefore this company is a monopoly. |
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jbg23
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| 29 Jul 2012 10:06 PM |
No, the part about the car.
The monopoly is probable. |
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THOK
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| 29 Jul 2012 10:15 PM |
| Capitalism fails because of greed and arrogance in people. |
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jbg23
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| 29 Jul 2012 10:16 PM |
Capitalism fails because of greed and arrogance in people.
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Can't tell if troll... |
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THOK
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jbg23
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| 30 Jul 2012 08:37 AM |
Capitalism fails because of greed and arrogance in people.
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That is the reason why it can claim any success at all. If people were not greedy, capitalism could not function. |
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| 30 Jul 2012 08:45 AM |
@OP; LOL
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jam2468
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| 30 Jul 2012 09:55 AM |
Still better than everything else.
And I don't really see how some stupid mail and a repairman trying to rip you off gives the impression that capitalism is a failure. |
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pepper0
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| 30 Jul 2012 10:01 AM |
wat
Capitalism is all about greed and arrogance, thats why is is such a success. |
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jbg23
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| 30 Jul 2012 05:12 PM |
Capitalism is all about greed and arrogance, thats why is is such a success.
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Thank you.
Capitalism takes greed, self interest, and general disregard for fellow man and channels it into a system that is the absolute best in the world at maximizing aggregate welfare.
...not that it doesn't have a myriad of problems... |
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| 30 Jul 2012 05:21 PM |
@Pepper; We must not blame an economic system of it's failures, but we must look at the people.
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| 30 Jul 2012 05:28 PM |
We must not blame an economic system of it's failures, but we must look at the people.
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There are a couple failures inherent to capitalism, actually. Globalization and the whole comparative advantage thingymajig have their downsides. |
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| 30 Jul 2012 05:36 PM |
I don't see why globalization is bad.
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jbg23
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| 30 Jul 2012 06:23 PM |
| In aggregate, there is no problem with globalization, but on a more individual level it can leave vast swathes of people in the dust as comparative advantage shifts and whatnot. |
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Avogadro
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| 30 Jul 2012 07:33 PM |
| If I had a dollar for every time that capitalism was blamed for the problems caused by government I'd be a fat filmmaker with a baseball cap. |
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pepper0
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| 30 Jul 2012 07:42 PM |
^
You sir, won the Gold Medal |
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| 30 Jul 2012 07:42 PM |
>Earlier today i got this in the mail " Want to wake feeling good? Convert to Chirstianity" For >a fee of $75! *face palm*
WOAH, since when was Christianity Scientology? The hell?
>A few weeks earlier my repairman came over to fix my microwave and he said there was a >strange substance inside causing an electrical disfunction, he charged me $300 to fix it. >Instead, I repaired it myself, 2 minutes for FREE..................... By brushing it off....
Yes, I heard there was once a time, before things were made to where you could take them apart, and fix them, where you could re-assemble it all after taking it apart, and it would work better than it did originally, well, now everything's plastic molds where you have to by a new one. |
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