On Wed, 23 May 2018 14:20:58 -0400, Keyser Soze
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On 5/23/18 1:51 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 23 May 2018 13:31:24 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 5/23/18 1:22 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 23 May 2018 11:37:18 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 5/23/18 10:40 AM, wrote:
On Wed, 23 May 2018 08:38:14 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 5/23/18 6:56 AM, Tim wrote:

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Can you blame them. Free stuff is hard to resist.

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And when you rob Peter to pay Paul, you’ll always have Paul’s support.


The 1% are robbing this country of everything.

They are usually providing a service that people eagerly flock to.


And you probably believe that ****, too.

You don't think people want to buy things from Amazon (Bezos), run
Windows PCs (Gates) , yack on Facebook (Zuckerberg) and look **** up
on Google (Page/Brin)? Those are 5 of the 6 richest guys in the US.
Buffett (#3) is just smart enough to get his money out in front of
what people want and cash in on it.


Amazon sells a huge variety of stuff, typically at lower prices than can
be easily found elsewhere, and delivers to your door. Microsoft sells
software for which there are many competing products. Zuckerberg gives
his flagship product away and hopefully properly address FB's security
and privacy issues. There are many competitors for google, and the apps
are given away. That advertisers pay to be on most of these products is
the price one pays for them, the same way one pays for commercial TV and
radio.

Free TV ends up costing the consumer more each year
than pay TV, just in the price they pay for everything advertised on
that TV.


No one forces watchers of commercial TV to buy anything.

That still does not say the ads are not a significant part of the cost
of those items and that it is hard to convince kids that "Publix" Corn
Flakes are not as good as Kelloggs, just because that is what they see
on TV.

BTW nobody forced anyone to read the Facebook posts that Trump is
accused of being behind either but you want him impeached.