Posted by Vito on July 29, 2009, 2:29 pm
> He'll shop around and drink the $4 stuff.
Where in the US do you find enough cocain to feed a habit for $4/day?
The price of illegal drugs is set by supply and demand, like everything
else.
The WOD assures that supply is low enough to keep prices high.
There are those who can afford those prices but they are not news.
The majority of addicts cannot, so they are driven to crime. Crime is news.
Posted by MikeWhy on July 29, 2009, 2:58 pm
>> He'll shop around and drink the $4 stuff.
> Where in the US do you find enough cocain to feed a habit for $4/day?
> The price of illegal drugs is set by supply and demand, like everything
> else.
> The WOD assures that supply is low enough to keep prices high.
> There are those who can afford those prices but they are not news.
> The majority of addicts cannot, so they are driven to crime. Crime is
> news.
You could have saved some typing and just quoted what I wrote intact. Thanks
for the input.
Posted by Vito on July 29, 2009, 4:00 pm
> He'll shop around and drink the $4 stuff. Dr. Frasier Crane and friends
> would have complained long and loud before they could tack on $196 of tea
> tax on the wine. Your father would have gotten a better paying job to
> better his crack-like addiction. Like crack, many substances have been
> priced by the open market and found to have essentially limitless profit
> potential. Price fixing, especially by the government, is not the answer.
But Mike, the gummymint already "fixes" the price of illegal drugs by
limiting the supply. Tell me where "the monster" could have bought enough
cocaine to feed his habit for $4 ... maybe I'll supplement my retirement by
reselling it.
Posted by MikeWhy on July 29, 2009, 6:47 pm
Good grief, Vito. We usually leave the context in so other folks can keep
up. This isn't a first by any means, but you *do* remember writing this this
very morning, don't you?
[[
> He wasn't a monster but I wonder what he might have done had cigarettes
> cost as much as crack.
> Similarly, my wife's ex drinks. He drinks a bottle of wine every evening
> and passes out but gets up and goes to work in the morning. But what if
> the bottle cost $200?
]]
>> He'll shop around and drink the $4 stuff. Dr. Frasier Crane and friends
>> would have complained long and loud before they could tack on $196 of tea
>> tax on the wine. Your father would have gotten a better paying job to
>> better his crack-like addiction. Like crack, many substances have been
>> priced by the open market and found to have essentially limitless profit
>> potential. Price fixing, especially by the government, is not the answer.
>>
> But Mike, the gummymint already "fixes" the price of illegal drugs by
> limiting the supply. Tell me where "the monster" could have bought enough
> cocaine to feed his habit for $4 ... maybe I'll supplement my retirement
> by reselling it.
Maybe don't snip so much next time and we can move on... but you're right,
it's not going anywhere anyway. We're done here.
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