Cookie Thread Act 7: Romulus

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We call this “inelastic demand”, and I’d argue that any industry with sufficiently inelastic demand needs to be a public service.
Unfortunately, society.

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btw I used a simplified version of that lottery problem in a putnam practice presentation thbthtbhtbthbthb

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also yea p much

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surprised the poll itself is so polarized

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no no no you see being the monopoly is the desired endgame

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yea lmao

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people think the grass is greener

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i meant like, average citizen capitalists who aren’t bribed by saids monopolies

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Personally I’d like to see grass redder

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there’s an episode of Star Trek Deep Space 9 where someone is telling a Ferengi that they’re being exploited. the Ferengi responds, saying they know they’re being exploited, but simply aspire to one day be the exploiters. i wish that show was less prescient.

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like, your entire ideology is supposed to be about having Multiple Companies Competeing and that’s why it works if there’s a single company it explodes

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if i had to teach in a public school it’s qbreader day

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Yeah

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good odds that something at least tangentially related to the class comes up. they’ll learn so much

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anyways just realized ive been on fol for four and a half years (iirc my first game was june 2020)

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My QB practice was hitting “Random Article” on Wikipedia until I got to a decently sized article, read the article, and repeat until I got bored.

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This was surprisingly effective.

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