T'alahn

In a free market, I can’t sell bread at 100× the normal price. Competitors will undercut me, and even if I buy them out, new ones will keep entering. That cycle never ends. Predatory pricing fails because the moment I raise prices, customers leave. Cartels fail because members cheat and new entrants break in. The only reliable way to maintain a monopoly is through the state. By trading favors with politicians, I can use government power to block competitors under the guise of regulation, public safety, or national interest. In reality, those rules exist to protect cronies like me. This can only happen publicly when the government passes regulations, because regulations are the public face of cronyism. Thus contrary to what dumb socialists think, solution is to protest and ask removal of regulations not billionaires and capitalism itself.

"a band partially owes its success to marketing" is the "indie band sells out by licensing song" story of 2026

There's obviously plenty of correct answers to this ''challenge''. But a good way to troll a Tankie if they actually ask you this with a gun to your head would be to just bring up Stalin's position on the creation of Israel.

if you are a creative you need to adapt or just like give up and become an uber driver until everyone has a waymo. I know it’s not cool or classy to speak like this but i’m not gonna candy coat the future - it is what it is . sorry for bad new’s my purist . there will always need a human mind and touch because ai will never suffer from bipolar disorder and autism like me and other creative people 🤪

My schizo theory on Anthony Bourdain is that his gut microbiome was terrible from the dirty street food and drinking which led him to a fragile mental state incapable of coping with a major stressor like a breakup