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Are MOST ATOTers just COMMUNISTS?

typical commie comment.

prices are what the market dictates. if you don't like it don't shop there. if you do quit b1tching about. ytf did you shop there then?
 
Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
typical commie comment.

prices are what the market dictates. if you don't like it don't shop there. if you do quit b1tching about. ytf did you shop there then?
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Typical totalitarian response.

I can bitch about what I want to bitch about. I pay what I think is reasonable. If the price is waaay too high, I don't buy it. Simple solution to a simple problem. I still think prices are too high.
 
No, they have just been indoctrinated to believe that big business is bad. You can place a lot of the blame for that on the whack jobs teaching public schools and holding professorships at universities.
 
Originally posted by: shinerburke
No, they have just been indoctrinated to believe that big business is bad. You can place a lot of the blame for that on the whack jobs teaching public schools and holding professorships at universities.
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Wal*Mart and similar big business bring lower prices.
 
A lot of it is just the nature of people and how they value things.

Many people on this board won't blink an eye about spending $150-$200 on a video card or $400 on a nice monitor, or $1500 on an HDTV or some other technical gizmo, yet they'll be one of the first ones to complain about CD prices or movie ticket prices or gas prices.

 
Originally posted by: shinerburke
No, they have just been indoctrinated to believe that big business is bad. You can place a lot of the blame for that on the whack jobs teaching public schools and holding professorships at universities.
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You can place the remainder of the blame on the businesses which engaged in fradulent practices instead of actual product and service sales.
 
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Originally posted by: PlatinumGold typical commie comment. prices are what the market dictates. if you don't like it don't shop there. if you do quit b1tching about. ytf did you shop there then?
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Typical totalitarian response. I can bitch about what I want to bitch about. I pay what I think is reasonable. If the price is waaay too high, I don't buy it. Simple solution to a simple problem. I still think prices are too high.
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LOL 😛
 
Originally posted by: shinerburke
No, they have just been indoctrinated to believe that big business is bad. You can place a lot of the blame for that on the whack jobs teaching public schools and holding professorships at universities.
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I was considering ranting about farming subsidies that pay the industry billions to NOT grow etc., just to keep prices high, but then figured it really wasn't appropriate without first subscribing to the communist party.
 
To play devils advocate. Its not communist to want to go against monopolies.

Its not communist to question if when you are buying something if you are paying what the market dictates or what the company is
making you pay because you have no other option.


On the other side of the arguement. CDs, TVs, DVDs, High Speed Internet, Cell Phones, etc, are pleasures of life. Not everyone
is owed this stuff in life. So if you think its too expensive don't buy it. If you want to buy it, then pay for it and let it be.

Now there are always valid price complaints. Like gas price gouging(not just the price of gas, but when its gouged (higher for NO REASON AT ALL)).
But I will willfully admit for every valid price complaint there is probably a handful of other complaints without merit.

 
Since when did the market dictate the price for CDs? Last I heard, when demand started going down, the RIAA started suing people... not lowering the prices.
 
Originally posted by: MacBaine
Since when did the market dictate the price for CDs? Last I heard, when demand started going down, the RIAA started suing people... not lowering the prices.
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I can walk into best buy and pick up just about any new release cd for $6.99 - $12.99.
 
Originally posted by: vi_edit
Originally posted by: MacBaine
Since when did the market dictate the price for CDs? Last I heard, when demand started going down, the RIAA started suing people... not lowering the prices.
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I can walk into best buy and pick up just about any new release cd for $6.99 - $12.99.
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Not me. Most of the ones I want are $14+
 
Originally posted by: FeathersMcGraw
Originally posted by: shinerburke
No, they have just been indoctrinated to believe that big business is bad. You can place a lot of the blame for that on the whack jobs teaching public schools and holding professorships at universities.
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You can place the remainder of the blame on the businesses which engaged in fradulent practices instead of actual product and service sales.
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Those are the exception.

 
I don't think communism is all that bad of a deal. In small dedicated groups it can work quite well. The stigma given to communism by USSR, China, and other such countries is definitely a horrible thing.
 
Discussion about pricing is part of a free market. Such discussion leads to sources of goods for the lowest possible price which is what free market capitalism is all about. It is only when such discussion leads to government mandated pricing that it starts down the road towards a command economy.
 
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I don't think communism is all that bad of a deal. In small dedicated groups it can work quite well. The stigma given to communism by USSR, China, and other such countries is definitely a horrible thing.
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So you don't mind me coming over and using our computer do you?
 
it's not because they're communist, it's because they strongly suspect (and for good reason), that those companies are guilty of collusion, monopoly or some other abberation of capitalism. in the case of the RIAA, it's well-founded, since the record companies have been found guilty of this in the past. movie theaters too actually, though that was longer ago.
 
Originally posted by: Linflas
Discussion about pricing is part of a free market. Such discussion leads to sources of goods for the lowest possible price which is what free market capitalism is all about. It is only when such discussion leads to government mandated pricing that it starts down the road towards a command economy.
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discussion can have an impact but not as much as action.

discuss all you want but if the person complaining about compusa continues to shop there, the discussion won't have as much of an impact as the action.
 
Originally posted by: rudder
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I don't think communism is all that bad of a deal. In small dedicated groups it can work quite well. The stigma given to communism by USSR, China, and other such countries is definitely a horrible thing.
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So you don't mind me coming over and using our computer do you?
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Just because I don't think communism is a bad theory does not mean I practice it. Although, if I were in a communistic then no, I wouldn't mind someone else in that group to use it. In fact, I think the way my friends and I treat each other is closer to communistic than capitalistic in its economic ways. I gave my friend a free account on my main computer, he's helped me out before, and we don't bother to keep track of it.
 
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