Price Gouging - Fair and balanced, or unfair

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia
its a bureacratic nightmare to make sure that work is distributed 'equally' how do you quantify work in ways other than money - is and hour of physical labor more valuable than an hour of desk job? there are literally millions of types of jobs out there (just look at monster.com to see) how will the party be able to decide who does what and how much each job is worth?

They don't have to start from scratch.

[Velociryx]

I'm thinking we'll hit 500 before nine pm eastern....maybe well before...LOL

Kid, as much fun as it is, when we DO hit five-oh-oh, I'm calling it a night.

I don't think I've laughed this much in six months, and my sides are aching.

Good stuff, but please...OH PLEASE tell me you don't really believe this stuff?

-=Vel=-

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Kidicious


And those people demand profit only, and at all costs.

Have you ever attended a shareholders meeting? It seems obvious you have not.

People are people and some of them love money and others hug trees-- a shareholders meeting gets lots of both types-- Haven't you witnessed the growth of "green" investment portfolios? Didn't you hear of the Canadian oil company that left a profitable African country to protest human rights? Where do you stick your head to nake such an asinine statement

What's next " having money is bad?

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker

Originally posted by Flubber
Over time I see things only getting better since government is continually improving those regulations.

Thanks for picking this one up for me.

[Kuciwalker]

Even if they only love profit, unless normal laws aren't enforced then they're only option is to get it through means that benefit the rest of us.

[chequita guevara]

/me runs away!

[Velociryx]

It's only bad, Flubber, if you have more than Kid.

If you do, the cash cops will be along shortly to collect his share of your wages.

Please leave the light on for them, 'k?

-=Vel=-

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
* chegitz guevara runs away!

[Velociryx]

:: best Darth Vader voice::

Che...you can run, but you cannot hide....

-=Vel=-

(c'mon in, the water's fine!)

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Velociryx
Competition for resources is going to get real ugly. I can assure you.

Then it'll get real ugly under your utopia too. I can assure you. Unless we wait for replicators to be invented (by the capitalists, of course) before starting the revolution.

But that won't work either, cos then what would we do for "work" ??

I guess we could all just sit around and think a lot....it's not work, but....you know.

-=Vel=-

Nah, sharing is peacefull. Forget all that killing for resources. Leave it in the past.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
* chegitz guevara runs away!

I'm about to follow.

[Velociryx]

Leave it in the past.

Would that be the past right after all the counter-revolutionaries get crushed in one final and swift blow?

The punishment doled out by the non-totalitarian, eminantly democratic regieme?

-=Vel=-

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Kidicious


Thanks for picking this one up for me.

I don't get it. Government regulates badly but over time they do get better in the areas that they regulate. People complain and make submissions and things change so that things like wildlife and the environment get better protected

Your schemes would involve( and a conservative estimate here,) perhaps an 8fold increase in necessary regulations and most of that in areas that government does not currently regulate at all. These means huge loopholes and in western democracies, likely large underground economies. It would be like prohibition in the US-- If the bulk of the poulace does not believe in the laws at all, they lose legitimacy and are not obeyed

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Flubber


Why ? take oil-- as it gets more expensive, people consume less, drill for more and look for alternatives--- Right now the high price is leading to reactivation of wells in old fields that had become uneconomic and has triggered many innovations that are leading to enhanced recovery schemes.

So which resources are we about to get competitive for?

All of them, including oil.

[Velociryx]

But somehow....under Kid's utopian scheme....we'll magically find so many new resources that our communal job shops won't have to compete for resources.

YAY!!!!

-=Vel=-