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Well the console example demonstrates long term payout strategies. Another example is in free to play games with microtransactions. You develop a game at a cost, you give it away for free, and you hope that it's good enough to hook people and get them to spend on "hats". It's a lot of money up front to make more later.

This assumes the local product wasn't already cost competitive. If they are close and you slap a tariff on the import that adds further incentive to pick local. Assuming local would capitalize on the added revenue via reinvestment/expansion, it would create jobs and more demand, may even make the product or services even more affordable.

I thought it was targetted but again in California its all items sold ate taxed and some at a higher rate.

I'm glad you started your dissertation with "the way you x is via y" because it immediately informed me that I was reading the work of an expert genius and as a smooth brain, when a genius writes, I read.

One question, wouldn't higher prices on imported cements sort of make local cements automatically cheaper, giving them an advantage without asking them to cut corners? In a free market you will often see a "race to the bottom" on goods, whereby manufactures and producers will cut costs so low that they lose money, so long as there is some other incentives that would lead to profit. Video game consoles are a common example. The console is sold at a loss with the expectation that they will make up the difference on the consumables, games and related services.

If local competitors can produce for lower cost than competitors it may drive more people, who generally just want to save money, to local businesses, creating demand, driving growth.

I was around /g/ during all of this and i thought about mining, did the math and decided not to. I was pretty broke at the time tbf.

This is a reasonable take but ngl I'm still a little sus.

It's strange to me how quickly I get +/- feedback on lemmy compared to actual comments and the replies that I get are almost always zero effort compared to what I get on reddit.

I get the feeling its normal for lemmy users to create multiple accounts and use them to sort of multiply their votes. What's worse is mods can see who is voting and so should be able to do something about it... so are they as guilty?

Normally when I hear this, good things follow.

So bigots can't tolerate their own perspectives? White supremacists are therefor very tolerant people.

If you can only tolerate your own perspective that makes you a bigot though.

In addition to music vidoes, I liked Beavis and Butthead, Daria, TRL, and Celebrity Deathmatch. Shows about bands, artists, and music.