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

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jerphisch said:
I can only speak to CO, but the quality of the legal stuff is off the charts compared to the illegal. It's like comparing fast food to sit down, one is cheaper for a reason.
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:) so one has a set clientele. wendy's is packed for a reason :p
 
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mookie1995 said:
:) so one has a set clientele. wendy's is packed for a reason :p
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That's exactly what I was thinking. The difference is Wendy's is legal.

But that's what I assume we're seeing: the evolution of marketing niches. It happened with booze, it'll happen with weed.

I'll bet there's also a residual culture that just won't go to the legal weed -- either they'll regard is as a sell out or they won't really trust it. It would be interesting to know whether something similar happened at the end of Prohibition. Did people keep making their own and/or keep the ahem "local economy" alive? I'll bet they did. People are funny.
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
This video is awesome. If only there were some way to drill this into people's heads like the lies that have been drilled for 4 decades.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pno...0aJx0SabY62dVEUktcpvbHf-9gr1qNjAl1f_3aGoeVhN4
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It's fantastic. It's so clean and clear. You really would have to be a knucklehead to not get it after this.

BTW, I have seen every one of these myths propounded on the Cafe over the years.

Robert Reich is a f-cking national treasure.
 
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Kepler said:
That's exactly what I was thinking. The difference is Wendy's is legal.

But that's what I assume we're seeing: the evolution of marketing niches. It happened with booze, it'll happen with weed.

I'll bet there's also a residual culture that just won't go to the legal weed -- either they'll regard is as a sell out or they won't really trust it. It would be interesting to know whether something similar happened at the end of Prohibition. Did people keep making their own and/or keep the ahem "local economy" alive? I'll bet they did. People are funny.
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Except in this example Wendy's is the illegal choice. So at Wendy's you're paying less than you would for a much better meal, but more than you should have to pay for Wendy's because it had to be smuggled into the country and the sit down place obtained all their food legally and locally.
 
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jerphisch said:
Except in this example Wendy's is the illegal choice. So at Wendy's you're paying less than you would for a much better meal, but more than you should have to pay for Wendy's because it had to be smuggled into the country and the sit down place obtained all their food legally and locally.
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Hence the words, "the difference is."

This is an early, primitive stage in the bifurcation of the pot market into many prestige/quality niches. High pot is apparently already well served. Low pot still seeks a Lowest Possible Provider. It needs a Budweiser. There will always be a silt trap at the bottom of the market for the people who want the cheapest choice and don't give a sh-t about quality or aesthetics. There will always be homemade prison cigarettes.
 
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Kepler said:
It's fantastic. It's so clean and clear. You really would have to be a knucklehead to not get it after this.

BTW, I have seen every one of these myths propounded on the Cafe over the years.

Robert Reich is a f-cking national treasure.
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Those myths have been effectively drilled into everyone's skull for 4 decades. Here and everywhere. They're still drilling.
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
Those myths have been effectively drilled into everyone's skull for 4 decades. Here and everywhere. They're still drilling.
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Sure, but hitherto you needed years of history, sociology, and economics to figure out it was all bullsh-t. RR has the ability to present it honestly but also clearly. 90% of the clientele of an Applebees could understand this video. That's what makes him more effective than Herbert Marcuse.

Bernie is somewhere in the middle. He hasn't figured out that dressing like a stereotypical 60s stoner professor at N.Y.U. flips a lot of brains off before he even opens his mouth. As Bill Maher said, "buy a comb."
 
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Wow! What a simple video to explain everything. Can we donate to him to get this as a paid advertisement on FOX News? :D
 
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aparch said:
Wow! What a simple video to explain everything. Can we donate to him to get this as a paid advertisement on FOX News? :D
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Bernie just appeared on FNC and ate the righties for dinner. While I'm sure the Ministry of Truth will have revised history by the end of the week, for a few hours there was actually a voice of sanity on that network, reaching eyeballs and undoing programming.
 
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I just saw that Bernie clip and whoa-boy did that backfire spectacularly on FNC.
 
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From the FOX News Euro channel:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I didn’t tweet about this earlier cos it made me so furious I wanted to ignore it. But I can’t stop thinking about how horrific this presenter’s behaviour is. The only thing offensive about this segment is her. <a href="https://t.co/YfvhuB5cSn">pic.twitter.com/YfvhuB5cSn</a></p>— Hannah Jane Parkinson (@ladyhaja) <a href="https://twitter.com/ladyhaja/status/1117918753734291456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I'm beginning to side with Kepler: What sauce goes best when we start eating the rich?
 
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"Big Tech" is not anywhere near as liberal as the alt-Reich wants you to think.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Debate is raging at Microsoft after some employees questioned the company's push to recruit more women and minorities on an internal message board. <a href="https://t.co/nqkXqdBJU9">https://t.co/nqkXqdBJU9</a></p>— USA TODAY Tech (@usatodaytech) <a href="https://twitter.com/usatodaytech/status/1119411874133622784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2019</a></blockquote>
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
"Big Tech" is not anywhere near as liberal as the alt-Reich wants you to think.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Debate is raging at Microsoft after some employees questioned the company's push to recruit more women and minorities on an internal message board. <a href="https://t.co/nqkXqdBJU9">https://t.co/nqkXqdBJU9</a></p>— USA TODAY Tech (@usatodaytech) <a href="https://twitter.com/usatodaytech/status/1119411874133622784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2019</a></blockquote>
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They rich. Ergo hate taxes. Ergo R
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
"Big Tech" is not anywhere near as liberal as the alt-Reich wants you to think.
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Are textbook racism and sexism OK so long as it's the correct race/sex? Because that's what we've been seeing out of the left for quite a while now.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
Are textbook racism and sexism OK so long as it's the correct race/sex? Because that's what we've been seeing out of the left for quite a while now.
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Show your work, please.
 
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