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We're all capitalists here: there's a simple solution to this question. 1. Buy a factory and train these monkeys to operate it in exchange for food. 2. Become rich via the competitive advantage their low labour cost gives you. 3. $$$ 4. Profit!
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Work out the amount of calories of energy required to grow, prepare and bring to the consumer 1500 calories worth of healthy food and compare that to the amount of calories required to get 1500 calories of McDonalds to the consumer? The former subtract the latter would give a difference in calories.
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Almost too funny to be true: http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/27/world/asia/north-korea-china-onion/index.html
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In an advanced, extremely wealthy libertopia, there'd be practically no need or incentive for family, as even the most basic of jobs, the kind a five year old could do, would pay more than the average wage now. Everybody'd be wealthy enough that they wouldn't have to depend on anything for anything, and certainly wouldn't want to if
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Kids aren't stupid; they understand make-believe. Knowing that they aren't real doesn't prevent them from enjoying and having their lives enriched by the likes of Spiderman and Barbie, so why trick them into believing things like Santa are real? Once they know how to read, the ideal thing would be to suggest them to Google it or research
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A Windsor monarchy! Surely you Americans didn't think you could escape the majesty of the British crown forever, did you?
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Assuming 100 people have a fixed amount, say $10, to spend on carpentry, and their time preferences remain constant. First, they all buy one chair per year, at $10 per chair, from the local carpenters, for a total expenditure of $1000 on chairs. Then, they find a better deal overseas, and all buy chairs for only $8 per chair, spending $800 per year
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Imagine you're a really crap carpenter, but you're the only one in town, and so you're making megabucks. Suddenly, another carpenter comes into town, who's competent, and immediately steals all your business. You can't find work as a carpenter anymore, and are forced to resort to work as a Starbucks barrista. Now, do we say your
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Note that there's a Misean argument for not killing someone on an island. Instead of killing them, you could enslave them, benefiting from their productive capacity, or trade with them, benefiting from both their productive capacity and their capacity for innovation/invention. In the long run, the satisfaction gained from the extra bounty this brings
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Does anyone else find this to be disgusting? From both a secular and a theological point of view, it seems hard to argue that it's not at least a little bit revolting. How did the theists of the time let something like this happen? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apotheosis_of_Washington