/lit/ - Literature

>>13962004

>>13951989
>>13952038
Shakespeare was a playwright; his actors literally painted their faces, and Much Ado About Nothing is titled after a vagina pun. The Greeks wore giant, cartoonish masks even during serious dramas. Tarring and feathering was, for the better part of a decade, America's foremost form of political engagement.

Dry intellectualism is a recent phenomenon that emerged from the anglosphere in the late 18th century. Stop clutching your pearls.

>>13421586
>You need to provide some sources where industries are monopolies or oligopolies without government interference.

This is an accepted fact. ISPs, railroad companies, pharmaceutical companies with patented non-fungible drugs, and many other oligopolies emerge not because of government interference, but because of intellectual property rights and/or economies of scale.

>What creates profit for a company, selling a drug or not selling it? You can set any price you want but you are inherently at the mercy of the market. The alternative? You get no medicine at all because the state decides so.

This is a false dichotomy, as described in (1). Capitalism and planned economies are not the only two options.

>>human nature is no fair therefore we need socialism
>Not an argument.

You're strawmanning. I never said anything about socialism, and I never said anything about human nature. I said that children born into wealth have unfair advantages over their poor peers, and that no reputable system of ethics prescribes this. The burden of proof is on you to explain why this is just.

>>13421589
>Your calculus treats demand as something that is totally uniform between all consumers.

No, it just accounts for scenarios in which demand IS uniform for all consumers. No rational actor will let himself die just to spite a drug company that overcharges. That is a concrete counterexample to the assertion that markets can solve every problem.

I agree that most goods are priced fairly, but many goods are not. This indicates that, for some problems, markets are not a viable solution.

The answer to the problems I'm describing isn't to abolish capitalism (although that might work too). It's to establish a universal basic income, a maximum wage, and public options for basic necessities like healthcare and housing.

>>13057532
No.

>Things are usually this way.
does not mean
>Things are always this way.
does not mean
>Things must be this way.

Read Hume.

>>12950860
Overwriten, self-important trash. School of Life for people who think they're too good for the School of Life.