I'm shutting down Google+ for the night and quite possibly for the weekend. Why? This stupid #gifwars thing people are so proud of. This Adam Black guy said he doesn't like gifs and now everyone is mass trolling him. Having been mass trolled like this I can relate to him easily enough. Have an opinion and the collective might of Google+'s lower class denizens jump on a bandwagon. I just saw a post where someone wanted to jump on board and had to get clarification she was tagging the proper Adam Black. She wasn't even connected to him ! Nor was she a part of the original discussion. She just wanted to follow the herd. When I called her out of it she claimed, "one gif doesn't make a troll." Perhaps not, but she's contributing to a larger troll effort. One straw doesn't break the camel's back, but thousands will. So, tonight, Google+ disgusts me. It probably will tomorrow as well. And possibly Sunday. I gave up Google+ for two months this spring
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I wonder if US travellers have been exposed to the boiling frog for a long time, and most travellers don't leave the US so they don't know that things could be like.
Pretty much the exact opposite of a free market, which isn't unrestrained. And completely unrelated to unrestrained capitalism.
Of course, I am using more or less traditional definitions. You definition would require me making up new words for everything else in economics.
A free market, to remain free, must be protected to prevent that, enabling the individual to own and grow his own capital (means of production).
But capitalism itself has no will, it's just an increasingly (and frustratingly) complex set of various economic models.
As a knifemaker I am an artist and a capitalist. I control and grow my own means of production and sell goods.
What you are saying is that I MUST seek to give the crappies product with the maximum profit.
I disagree.
Vehemently
We will disagree. I get that. All free market economics is evil for you. Fortunately for me as a self employed artist, you guys haven't enslaved me to the people's farm combine yet.