Rongagin71 said:
My idea is that those companies would still be with us if they had charged more OR had been more efficient.
The problem with greed isn't necessarily that it causes companies to want to charge more, it is that money is often wasted and /or spent inefficiently due to greed/stupidity
Zobel said:
But he was talking about fast food prices.
Why would they charge less when people are still going? Why should they? You don't have to eat at McDonald's.
Transgender kids is a new thing. And, a terrible, terrible thing.Sapper Redux said:Wait, do you think transgender people just emerged in 2019? No, it became the conservative cause du jour around then.BusterAg said:Not really. As with most predictions, they were in the right direction, just a bit off the mark.Aggrad08 said:
To your basic question, yes I think it's good to have these predictions time capsuled. But to turn your point back at you, do you agree that the predictions made by seamaster et al in those threads provided have not come to pass?
I don't think anyone saw the ***** / boob chopping block coming in 2019 for our young adults. Nor the pronoun craze. Nor the amount of normalization of transgenderism in public schools. Pedophilia itself was off the table, so the crazy lefties are just biting around the edges wherever they can.
Also, pedophilia is becoming less stigmatized, right? Minor attracted person? What the hell?
Food inflation has been higher than average inflation. Much of that is because food costs of production are very exposed to energy prices. You can't just say hamburgers are more expensive than average inflation and chalk that up to greed.Macarthur said:
I also saw an article (I'll try and link it) that said McDonald's has raised their prices like 300% since 2014…or the wording was they raised their prices 3 times higher than inflation. Can't remember the exact stat.
The point is, yes, inflation has increased prices but there is a greed element that can not be discounted.
I mean, you do have to use some common sense. Don't build a bridge to nowhere, obviously, but that is just a strawman.Zobel said:
It begs the question - if the government can spend money on infrastructure at will, with no penalty and obtain economic growth without end why would you ever stop? The simple answer is because you can't, any more than increasing the minimum wage indefinitely create economic growth. China is a great example of this kind of folly.
BusterAg said:Food inflation has been higher than average inflation. Much of that is because food costs of production are very exposed to energy prices. You can't just say hamburgers are more expensive than average inflation and chalk that up to greed.Macarthur said:
I also saw an article (I'll try and link it) that said McDonald's has raised their prices like 300% since 2014…or the wording was they raised their prices 3 times higher than inflation. Can't remember the exact stat.
The point is, yes, inflation has increased prices but there is a greed element that can not be discounted.
Who are you arguing with? I'm saying that your predictions have failed completely. Not that "nothing any progressives ever do or advocate for is ever stupid". Particularly when you pick one off examples that aren't indicative of ordinary life.BusterAg said:
Allowing kids to choose their gender in grade school, with teachers reinforcing that type of behavior, parent's preferences be damned, is not some thing that has been around for a long time. Or, are you arguing that it has?
Sexualizing kids is absolutely going down the wrong path regarding pedophilia. I will remind you again of rainbow dildo butt monkey at a grade school library: https://torontosun.com/news/british-library-apologizes-for-hiring-rainbow-dildo-butt-monkey-for-kids-event
I don't see how you can argue that it is a good thing to expose kids to these kind of topics.
Sexualizing kids is bad.
Having sex with kids is bad.
Both involve kids and sex. That is how they are related. Silly or obtuse to argue otherwise.
Macarthur said:BusterAg said:Food inflation has been higher than average inflation. Much of that is because food costs of production are very exposed to energy prices. You can't just say hamburgers are more expensive than average inflation and chalk that up to greed.Macarthur said:
I also saw an article (I'll try and link it) that said McDonald's has raised their prices like 300% since 2014…or the wording was they raised their prices 3 times higher than inflation. Can't remember the exact stat.
The point is, yes, inflation has increased prices but there is a greed element that can not be discounted.
The point is that prices and profits have risen at a higher rate than inflation.
Beer Baron said:
So your big example of pedophilia becoming widespread, accepted, and advocated for in America is a single library in the UK booking something without researching what it was, then getting massive blowback, stopping the performance, and apologizing for it? Do you read any of the stuff you post about or just see a headline, get upset, and then post it immediately?
I agree with the "pull back" comment - economic cycles are a thing.Macarthur said:
No surprise that these places in affluent areas are doing well. You're focusing on narrow examples and the things I've referenced along w the post about collusion w oil companies and OPEC are focusing more of the broader picture. These companies are making record profits, so it's no surprise you see long lines at some places.
My point is that there can't help but be a pull back, at some point.
