Re: if you were president

On 19 May 2007 18:51:52 -0700, $Zero <zero@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On May 19, 8:38 pm, Josh Hill <userepl...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 19 May 2007 15:24:57 -0700, $Zero <z...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
yes, but in almost every case, 99% of the costs are nothing more than
market manipulations.

That's preposterous, Zero.

what's preposterous is that you claim to not be a suit.

Me a suit? That's rich.

Competition would not permit such a high percentage.

oh really?

you'll claim that this is a poor example, but consider Anna Nicole
Smith.

or a zillion other enterprises where the profit margins are
astronomical in comparison to the "hard costs".

how many Anna Nicoles are there out there competing at those profit
margins?

too numerous to mention.

you're naive to think that science-oriented/engineering-oriented
businesses are any different.

they only *seem* to be more "reality-based".

but they're not.

Of course they are.

What's more, a market economy simply wouldn't work under
those circumstances.

tell that to Donald Trump, Rosie, Paris Hilton, et al.

yikes.

You're equating the cherry with the banana split.

It would be hopelessly inefficient, since a bag
of cherries could cost more than sportscar.

yeah well, in the real world, a bra-full of tits often costs way more
than a thousand sports cars.

it's mostly illusion, Josh.

there's no "reality-base" to most of it.

some things just *seem* more "reality-based" because of their lack of
obvious flash.

but it's all just a big game of hide-the-pea.

you can delude yourself into thinking that energy A costs way more
than energy B, but the fact is that you've been had.

did i convince you?

...


but seriously, there's a lot more truth there than you'd like to
believe.

But I don't base my judgments on what I'd like to believe. Engineering
just ain't a bunch of stupid celebrities. Besides, any economist could
tell you that the value of a celebrity /is/ linked to the market.
Films starring Pfister Pfatz just don't earn a movie studio as much as
films starring Robin Williams.

--
Josh

"The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet
that people have the right to live life as they please,
as long as they don't hurt anyone else in the process. . . .
The radical right has nearly ruined our party. Its members
do not care about the Constitution and they are the
ones making all the noise." - Barry Goldwater
.

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