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> Indian state wields too much power over everything I think its part of our culture, it begins in our childhood where our parents tell their kids that kids (even when they become adults) should blindly obey their parents.
Against the vice of asking there is the virtue of refusing.
cant do that with all the brainwashing about respecting your elders.
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Against the vice of asking there is the virtue of refusing.
> virtue of refusing cant do that with all the brainwashing about respecting your elders.
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> Television programmes can be asked to censor everything from expletives Not only does this happen in the US, it's legendary, and can lead to comedy gold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4koLWPq2qDY (Warning: clip contains uncensored expletives.) > Hell, Karnataka Govt. even tried to cap the price of movie tickets. This just sounds like a good thing to me. The state government was under pressure from Kannada organis…
It sounds good but price ceilings rarely help people. The free market generally does a good enough job at finding the optimal price. It's easy enough to say that movie theater owners are greedy and just want more money, but that's exactly why they're even in the business--to make money. If you remove that incentive, they really have to reason to continue operating. You can see this in action in New York with its rent…
Imagine having a consortium of telecom companies deciding to charge $100/Gb of data (assuming they are making profit nevertheless). There is no incentive for them to reduce the price.
To give you an example, a movie ticket would cost upto $20 in an economy where a bottle of water costs ~$0.2.