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Uhmmm...Do they really call that piece of crap "research"? Agrhrrrr
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a market dont require the intention of buying and selling, just the exchange of something in return for something else.
a market dont require the intention of buying and selling, just the exchange of something in return for something else. Exchange of what? Goods and services for other goods and services of comparable value, or cash, or notes of debt? Is that not the definition of a market? Here is a human gathering for you: a funeral. What goods & services are changing hands? And please don't say "the family's savings going to the fu…
Having been part of the "XviD scene" for many years in the not too distant past, I have to say that the whole angle on this being profit-driven is just... wrong. NFO-files have been around since the early days of BBS trading in the Amiga scene and the PC scene alike, and the presence of web addresses in these files today doesn't change the reality that people just don't care for reading the NFOs when it comes to audi…
NFOs are useful for lesser known, possibly out-of-distribution foreign downloads, telling you about audio & subtitle languages. Sometimes bitrate and IMDB links.
And they can be funny. I hope NFOs never die.
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Everything is a market. Any time people get together, for any purpose, trading occurs. The truth of that assertion hinges on us not remembering the billion other counter-examples. It might comfort free-market capitalists like ourselves to paint humanity with that thick brush, but truth tells differently: people don't always gather with the intention to buy/sell, in fact, sometimes, commercial intent is detrimental to…
>> Everything is a market. Any time people get together, for any purpose, trading occurs. > The truth of that assertion hinges on us not remembering the billion other counter-examples. It would have been nice if you'd have provided some of those counter-examples. > people don't always gather with the intention to buy/sell There's your problem - you think that trading only involves money. It doesn't. It's the exchange…
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>> Everything is a market. Any time people get together, for any purpose, trading occurs. > The truth of that assertion hinges on us not remembering the billion other counter-examples. It would have been nice if you'd have provided some of those counter-examples. > people don't always gather with the intention to buy/sell There's your problem - you think that trading only involves money. It doesn't. It's the exchange…
Sure, everything's a trade of value if you define the term "trade of value" loosely enough. As far as I can tell, that's more of a semantic game than an actual revelation.
Your initial argument rested on the (reasonable) assumption that people value lots of things in addition to money.
Do you really want to argue that people don't trade non-monetary value?
Or, does your "loosely" argument rest on how you think that I've twisted "of"?
You say "semantic" like it's meaningless....
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Sure, everything's a trade of value if you define the term "trade of value" loosely enough. As far as I can tell, that's more of a semantic game than an actual revelation.
> Sure, everything's a trade of value if you define the term "trade of value" loosely enough. Your initial argument rested on the (reasonable) assumption that people value lots of things in addition to money. Do you really want to argue that people don't trade non-monetary value? Or, does your "loosely" argument rest on how you think that I've twisted "of"? You say "semantic" like it's meaningless....
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a market dont require the intention of buying and selling, just the exchange of something in return for something else. Exchange of what? Goods and services for other goods and services of comparable value, or cash, or notes of debt? Is that not the definition of a market? Here is a human gathering for you: a funeral. What goods & services are changing hands? And please don't say "the family's savings going to the fu…
Money is exchanged for the rite of ceremonial burial. Most people don't just stick their mum into the ground - it's just not "proper". Social factors require a ritual market in most societies.
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a market dont require the intention of buying and selling, just the exchange of something in return for something else. Exchange of what? Goods and services for other goods and services of comparable value, or cash, or notes of debt? Is that not the definition of a market? Here is a human gathering for you: a funeral. What goods & services are changing hands? And please don't say "the family's savings going to the fu…
At a funeral, people exchange stories, comfort, and grief.
In a funeral, I bloody hell care who comes to grief with me, more importantly, I care about who didn't.