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You don't really have to realize what is going on!
You have no boundaries. Only physical.
Mentally just bliss, b/c you don't know your crazy..
Hahahahahahahahhaah.....
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benefit
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The world at last becomes palatable.
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why do they have so much things in the supermarket tho?
you can't eat all of that, why do people work so hard and eat so much?
why don't they just read a book on what is good to eat and how much, then they wouldn't have to spend so much money on food and then maybe they would only have to work 4.5 days instead to 5 days a week?
i mean how much of that stuff goes to waste anyway? it's rediculous. ok fine, some people like coke but why do you need pepsi too ?
i mean they taste the same really. people would say it is for competition, to give jobs to people.
....that makes me think of two things...
1. if there wasn't competion it would be cheaper
2. i'm sure there are better jobs for people, i mean couldn't the govenment create better jobs for people, like doing garden design or something?
i can't see a flower anywhere in this city, do we need it? - in the same way we need the choice of pepsi or coke right! - in the same way we need more jails and less psychologists.
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life tastes more purple and warm
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"if there wasn't competion it would be cheaper"
If market price were driven purely by efficiency, then yes, removing the cost of marketing would lower the price. It doesn't work this way, though. Quite the opposite, actually.
Removing competition drives prices up. You are forgetting to factor in human greed. If Coke has no incentive to offer a lower price, it simply won't. If it has Pepsi offering substantially the same product for 20 cents less, it has incentive to drop its price to at least match Pepsi's price, if not lower.
If Coke undercuts Pepsi's price, Pepsi then has incentive to drop their price.
This continues until a fair equilibrium of cost / price / profit is reached, and the price of both product will hover somewhere around that mark. For the products in question, that seems to be about a buck per 2 liter bottle.
Competition is good for consumers because it is bad for greed.
This is also why antitrust laws exist against price collusion between "competing" companies. I feel these are not enforced nearly often enough.
This is also why there is currently so much noise about patent reform. With the USPTO handing out patents like Pez for just about any blindingly obvious idea, sometimes one already in use in the market, the real price of products is not only NOT being mitigated by competition, it is being driven upwards by patent lawsuits.
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buttercup, you're getting better by the day! thanks!
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yes i understand how having competition makes it cheaper in that sense -of course that is what the competition is all about, the company that sells the most and makes the most profit.
so what you are saying is that competition is due to greed and not morally getting the price right, who sets the standards and how much it is worth.
Surely the public should decide that ?
shouldn't they? the public should in their own minds know what tastes good, and how much it is worth according to the sensation of the taste why do they need to compare it to something that tastes exactly the same with a different logo and name ?
i can't be the only person that doesn't buy into this shit, don't people think ?
and why do girls buy magazines encouraging them to go down to size 0 ?
what kind of an impression is that? go anorexic a man might like you more.
People are being brain washed from morning to night, the minute they turn on the radio, the junk mail throught the door, the billboards.
who is to blame the producer or the buyer? or is it catch 22 again?
i would say it is the buyer because generally people are confused.
but then again that is what freedom is isn't it, it's better to work in a Pepsi factory rather than work in a beautiful garden. the people decide, yes they do.
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I like size 0
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really?
that means that you like people that don't love themselves then, unless they are naturally size zero of course. there's nothing wrong with that as long as they don't only eat only lettuce leaves. I find it a bit ugly if someone goes to that extent to look thin, it's not attractive if someone is damaging their insides it is vein and warped.
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