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Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 8: Bezos Takes Over the World

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St. Clown said:
Sociopathic behavior expresses itself in many different ways; they don't have to be political Neanderthals.
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True. But if we judge say 70%+ of the people out there as a (insert negative stereotype)...don't at some point we become the dbag?
 
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5mn_Major said:
True. But if we judge say 70%+ of the people out there as (insert negative stereotype)...don't at some point we become the dbag?
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Sociopathic behavior isn't a guarantee that someone will become a dbag. Some people are that way that go down as great heroes in our history books. (I'm thinking Benjamin Franklin and George S. Patton as two examples.)
 
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St. Clown said:
Sociopathic behavior isn't a guarantee that someone will become a dbag. Some people are that way that go down as great heroes in our history books. (I'm thinking Benjamin Franklin and George S. Patton as two examples.)
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As a clinic term...but unfortunately, society more frequently uses it in derogatory terms.

Sociopaths are people who have little to no conscience. They will lie, cheat, steal and manipulate others for their own benefit. They know exactly what they are doing, they just don't care because they don't think that way. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Sociopath
 
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Describes Wall Street and most of DC to a T, AFAIC. So yes, I will stand by my previous statement.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
This was a fcking awesome own.
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There needs to be two stories a day like this one and the one with the government going after Floyd Mayweather for failing to disclose he was getting paid to rep a company through his twitter account, until the public rises up and dumps every "influencer" in a hole in the ground and fills it in with dirt.
 
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/steel-imports-break-through-tariff-barrier-1544026313

Foreign steelmakers have been subjected since March to 25% tariffs in the U.S. Instead of isolating imported steel as the most expensive in the market, domestic steel producers have raised their prices by as much or more, moves that have generated higher profits for those steelmakers and driven up costs for U.S. manufacturers. Foreign steel’s share of the steel market remains significant, and the U.S. continues to be the world’s largest market for imported steel.
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That's what always happens when tariffs are put in place. It doesn't create more jobs, in the long-term. It just increases costs paid by raw materials consumers, and eventually end consumers.
 
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St. Clown said:
That's what always happens when tariffs are put in place. It doesn't create more jobs, in the long-term. It just increases costs paid by raw materials consumers, and eventually end consumers.
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Trump doesn't understand that because daddy bought his Econ degree from Penn.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Yeah, but if he actually understood things he'd be just as bad as the rest of those Wharton scumbags.
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Yeah, but he'd also be smart enough to legitimately be ultra-rich, and therefore not be compromised by foreign creditors.

Either way, it's a lose-lose situation for America.
 
French Rage said:
Man trade wars are so easy to win.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING: Record imports drive US trade deficit to $55.5 billion in October, highest in a decade.</p>— The Associated Press (@AP) <a href="https://twitter.com/AP/status/1070674289765031938?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
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aparch said:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING: Record imports drive US trade deficit to $55.5 billion in October, highest in a decade.</p>— The Associated Press (@AP) <a href="https://twitter.com/AP/status/1070674289765031938?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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Sure would you buy more expensive domestic products that are more because their raw materials have had tariffs?
 
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