JonKramer, CIS-HET / is on Nostr

BS in Physics. Will not tolerate hate. I am active here and on Post.

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2023-09-14 21:03:07

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@npub1y3h…fkts , another tip, sell your cars. Am uber is getting to be cheaper than owning a car. And a neighborhood electric vehicle that doesn't need insurance or registration is next for me. And I just put a downpayment on a 3 wheeled electric motorcycle that should cost about $100 a year to insure.

2023-09-14 21:01:04

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@npub1y3h…fkts , I wish I had learned this decades ago, but those guys who try to sell you insurance on the interwebsnet? They will sell a new years' insurance at an introductory rate, and if you switch providers every year, you can get the new rates every year. Totally worth it, but a pain in the butt to remember to do. And hundreds of phone calls to screen...

2023-09-14 17:32:44

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@npub1aq2…4nfw , I am sure the NRA and right wingers will rush to his defense.

2023-09-14 16:04:54

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@npub1esn…jpyd , A very large portion of both major parties do not support the Constitution.

2023-09-14 16:03:17

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@npub10le…8r3l , I think if the TSA wants a different reputation that 'the guys who provide jobs to pedos' then they need to do something else, like catch a terrorist.

2023-08-13 11:16:55

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@npub1ql3…a0kk here are some of mine:
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2023-08-07 17:44:02

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 @npub1d7j…u8xc @npub1ukc…40jn , and price fixing can only affect a population if there is no competition. This is my morality argument, if it can't force economic effects, then there is nothing immoral in the act. regardless of any other details, like laws.

2023-08-07 17:38:53

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 @npub1d7j…u8xc @npub1ukc…40jn , sure, this has happened. That doesn't make it immoral. If two guys want $10K for pens, and collude to fix those prices, I will just buy pens on Amazon for $1 each. And this is not immoral. Not my actions, or theirs. "Found that they acted illegally" isn't a good argument to me.

2023-08-07 17:33:30

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 @npub1d7j…u8xc @npub1ukc…40jn , a small company is 50 people maybe? That is considerably different than 2 people. Anti trust doesn't scale DOWN.
Imagine 500 farms trying to sell 100 people oranges. But each farm only produces a single orange. If two of those farmers collude to raise the prices, or fix them, what is the result? They don't sell their oranges. Even if half the farmers price fix, it won't make much of a difference. You need all 500 to fix the prices... and even then, the customers just buy bananas instead. Labor is like orange farmers. There is a vast supply. They can't price fix, unless they get control of the government, and even then the companies are multinational. They just move and buy their labor elsewhere.

2023-08-07 17:18:01

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@npub1d7j…u8xc @npub1kpw…xzz4 @npub1ukc…40jn , it CAN be price fixing if the companies are required by law to only use union labor, and not freely enter into contracts that say they will only use union labor... But that would require the union to exist everywhere the company can operate. I just don't see any examples of that world wide.

2023-08-05 21:48:22

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 @npub1ukc…40jn I argue that the only reason any group can control a whole niche is because the government regulates who can be part of the groups. Get rid of corporate cronyism, and allow competition, and those groups can’t form.

2023-08-05 21:42:42

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 @npub1ukc…40jn , that’s because we have government enforced monopolies, and no free markets. If someone else could sell the products, the price fixers would collapse.

2023-08-05 21:41:42

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 @npub1ukc…40jn What makes it wrong to do it with your friends? To stop working as a mass? How is your action morally different when done with your friends than when you do it alone??

2023-08-05 21:40:19

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 @npub1ukc…40jn , let them collude to fix prices, and buy from someone else. Government limiting competition is the problem there, not the companies trying to maximize profits.

2023-08-05 21:35:59

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 @npub1ukc…40jn , good answer, but I will suggest the jury is still out on how much harm it does... Long term more money in the economy means more money trickles down to the poor, and higher minimum wages for sure does put more money into the economy.