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The problem is that cars and housing are to a large degree unsubstitutable goods. When lobster became a delicacy instead of prison food, wardens weren't wondering how they could afford the newly expensive goods, they were substituting them for cheaper replacements.

History can't convince a nerd until you show that history was caused by an intrinsic quality, not an accidental one. I think it touches too closely to 'decline of pirates linked to increase in global warming' without any explanation of how their ice cold hearts kept us cool.

I'm not so sure that it's clearcut that personal/selfish ambition is exactly identical to financial ambition. Further, there's probably a few different configurations of societies that distribute wealth evenly that are compatible with financial ambition. As for corruption, you probably need to convince someone that capitalist corruption is better :)

If there are no actual health or safety concerns about pink slime, why can't they sell it direct? Why can it only be used as 15% filler?

Can I sell 20 authentic iPhones from 17 real ones reassembled with 3 counterfeits?

Producer fails to inform consumer.

Consumer gets informed out-of-band.

Consumer is annoyed that they were not informed by producer.

???

Blame consumer.

Captain of Undirected Development

And yet, the US Census regards fathers as child care, not designated parents.

http://blogsallie.4cforchildren.org/2012/02/13/census-bureau...

All that cringing and you only call out a misnamed variable?

You can separate commercial rights from copyrights.

You can see this in anyone who finds a difference between "Hey, listen to this mp3 of Rihanna's We Found Love", "Hey, buy this unofficial mp3 copy of Rihanna's We Found Love", and "Hey, listen to this mp3 of grellas' We Found Love"