That's what I was thinking!

See, this is the kind of claim that I called "armchair economics" a few comments ago.  It's an argument from economic ignorance.

Can you reason with a person who insists that what is well-known is unknown or unknowable?  NO.  It's like arguing facts with a creationist -- he'll just deny them and call you "arrogant".

Ostracize, people.  Point out ignorance and hostility, then move on.  Reasoning is for reasonable people.  You don't reason with mules -- you shouldn't reason with people who insist on remaining ignorant.

Fantastic, if blood-chilling, part 3 of the fascists around you series.  It starts off a little slow, but the second part is simply spot-on and well-paced.

I am impressed.

I support it with code contributions.

This forum is full is horrible, horrible human beings.

Hell yeah! Thanks!

Bmup!!!

To me this is like leaving money on the street. If you find it, it has been unhomesteaded, and thus yours.

cbeast is the wrong nickname.  The right nickname is just beast.  Cos that dude is a beast.  Like, a brute beast.

What happened?  Things got too hot for ya?

FUCK YOU.

Ignore list being the asshole who shits on a person who was unjustly fired.

I've noticed that a few of you continue responding to cbeast.

Why?

It's pretty obvious that he doesn't know how to actually have an argument.  Guy's as intellectually dishonest as they come.  You can palpate it here.

Observe his behavior.  If you advance an argument, he refuses to respond to the argument.  If you refute something he says, he ignores the refutation and proceeds to advance another flawed hypothesis, which he never backs up or substantiates with any evidence-based argument whatsoever.  He's playing whack-a-mole with increasingly crazy Goddidit-style hypotheses and fallacies like arguments from emotion, just so he doesn't have to accept the observably true statement that minimum wages hurt poor people.  From what I could tell from the brief quotes in others' responses, he's still doing this -- throwing words your way to busy you up and provoke you.

If he's obviously not having a conversation with you, why, then, do you give him your attention?  To contaminate the thread with more stupidity from him?  Cos that's what engaging him accomplishes: it fills the thread with more and more stupidity that he happily makes up to cling to his beliefs.

There's nothing you can do to change this sad man's mind.  Nothing.  He's married to the idea that organized violence (in this example, against employers) can make the world better.  That kind of person cannot be persuaded.  Just add him to your ignore list, and note that he's in your ignore list whenever he intervenes in threads you're commenting (this is only so new forum members won't waste their time with him either).

Talking to a man in denial doesn't work.  Ostracism does, if you actually ostracize idiots.

The golden irony of saying this on a Bitcoin forum, of all places.

I am interested in that answer as well.

Easy to understand, when one realizes they literally worship the people on that side of the equation, with the adoration and obedience reserved only for the highest priests of the most widespread cult of sociopathy: statism.

Really, it pets very easy to understand and predict what statists will do, once you see them as the cult they are. They are no different from what the Catholic Church was a few centuries ago, and they will xelebrate the punishment of anyone that the priests or their holy scriptures punish. In that sense, they are completely oblivious to the total grip that the cult has over their warped minds.

What is it with these armchair economists that say "uh dunno could go either way nobody knows derp"? Do they ignore supply and demand? Do they not know what price controls do to the supply of a resource? Do they think that supply and demand will magically not apply because God or a politician say so? Do they not understand that a minimum wage is a price control? Or do they just not want to accept reality, because they would rather believe populist nonsense?

I am sitting here watching morons debate whether a rock ten pounds in size will fall ten times faster than a rock one pound in size, saying "well, it could go either way" and I feel that Galileo must have felt like I am feeling right now.

God the five dammit, we have all the knowlegde necessary to figure this matter out, right at our fingertips, ann even with that, some people still choose to remain in the Dark Ages.

Exactly.  Corporations are fictitious entities that are "wished" into existence by people who believe that magical papers change reality.  In this specific example, the reality that these papers pretend to change, is the reality of responsibility.  They have a whole special category of non-reality called "corporate liability", where it is this fictional entity that is made responsible for the actions of the people who control them, who usually end up being sociopaths because hey, with a corporation, you too can be a sociopath and get away with it!  Of course, the rest of us do not get this privilege -- we only get to be responsible for what we do.

Your batteries last me a whole day.  I couldn't go without those egos.

You can.  At least puresmoker.com offers flavor sampling packs that are cheap.  Buy an atomizer for dripping and then you can try a few drops of each flavor.

I thought the same until I tried a shit-ton of flavors from a flavor sampler I bought for dripping.  I'm free of the need to have tobacco flavor now.

Then that's a glut of taxis in the city -- which is just the other side of the coin of taxi shortages.  Also produced by government.