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Maybe there's a coincidence here. We're talking about bad games and AVGN is based on bad games... I mean, the character's been running for more than a decade, it's very hard not to pick something he already reviewed

That's true as long as the number of such goods remains the same.

Come on, leave my username alone already Also I never said it would severely impact the price of goods because it doesn't, not by itself. Economy isn't that simple. Don't strawman me, please.

Maybe that's why I'm skeptic about it.

Yeah, that's how it works here in Brazil up to R$ 1.903,98: 0% From R$ 1.903,99 to R$ 2.826,65: 7,5% From 3: De R$ 2.826,66 to R$ 3.751,05: 15% From 4: De R$ 3.751,06 to R$ 4.664,68: 22,5% From 5: R$ 4.664,68 and above: 27,5% Good luck implementing that and promising quality health care and such... The idea is great, tho.

Sorry for not specifying. How much minimum wage is enough to make it a living minimum wage? Ok, let's consider the treasurer set it to $19.84. Why not $22 or $60 or whatever? What are the impacts and consequences of going higher than $19.84?

That's an old discussion in South America. So here's a question: how much is enough? Wouldn't it be easy to just set it to 3k dollars or something? How about 5k? Well, let's make it 10k. Any ideas on why it doesn't work? Oh we also still have tipping, it's usually 10%. Guess why?

Socialist Russia is an extreme example but the specific example I used was not extreme, because it's being used, right now, in Argentina. They are freezing prices just like Brazil did in the 80s and totally ruined the economy. No, I'm not familiar with all US taxes history. I also don't know the economical context from your example, except that World Wars mess up every possible aspect of economy. Well then, let's wait for the laws taxing rich people to start collecting money and see where it takes the US economy. Guess they know what they are doing. Thanks for the nice talk and being respectful. We don't have to hate each other because we disagree on stuff.

Do you think there's a limit that separates "money to keep wheels turning" from "we want more money because we can take it from you"? For me, there is and this is what I meant. Sorry for not specifying this. But then, we'd enter another realms of discussion like "how much is enough" or "when it's fair or not". Discussion-wise, taking money from people who already paid their taxes because they have a lot of it is just like kids making new rules when they are losing a game. That's a way it may work but not a good one. Consider the context of my statement: getting rich people's money and distributing it. It will be a one-off thing that will totally distort the production chain because the industry will see things (food, electronics, everything actually) flying off the shelves and will produce more of it. Next month most people spent their share and all that extra production will gather spider webs and a lot of money was put in producing stuff without buyers. This is the most simplistic and short way to explain one of the possible consequences. I never said that money disappears, although it's possible and also can be created from practically nothing (with consequences, both cases). Me neither, I was talking about freezing prices or just messing with it and how it causes hunger and kills poor people. Price is a consequence not a cause, it's like feeling too young/old and changing your age. Like the bell curve thing, it takes statistics knowledge, a precise definition of what's plotted in it and very good arguments to turn it into some law. You want that right line to be higher or to turn it into a linear increasing graph, I understand it. But maybe things aren't that simple and we may end up scratching our heads with another bell curve, trying to figure out what the hell happened. Look, I knows this subject makes people uncomfortable and makes them fight/dislike each other. Long story short, all I'm saying is: it was tried before, did not work. If we're going to risk messing up the economy and starving some people to death, let's do it with new ideas. And I'm taking this topic as a chance to practice my written english

Not jaded, I think we have enough practical examples on why it doesn't work as intended. Good intentions do not imply good outcomes. Is every law moral? No. Is it possible to make immoral laws based on moral intentions? Yes, absolutely. I have a personal rule: I don't agree to laws made under a government I "like" that a government I "don't like" would abuse. Today we have a "tax the rich" law, tomorrow we'll have a "tax everyone who has a car and college education". It's a very dangerous slippery slope giving such powers to politicians. I don't mean to be rude and I'm totally not being rude but wether you buy that or not is totally irrelevant. I really like this quote: "Ideology is the adequacy of the thing to the thought. Philosophy is the adequacy of the thought to the thing." Reality is what it is, we must accept it, risking making very bad decisions by ignoring it. We do have examples in the past when governments messed with the reward mechanism of the free market and it always ended up bad to the lower and middle classes, and I'm talking about socialist Russia stuff here. If reality clashes with my solution to something, I must reconsider my solution, putting aside good intentions. Personally, I think that "tax the rich" has nothing to do with inequality, for the elites who advocate for it. It solves nothing. Sum up every fortune in the US. Now split it equally among every citizen. Everyone gets a little and that money will be spent and never seen again. That money is better serving society making services/goods cheaper (by raising efficiency). Here's a simple example: let's say that distributing Jeff Bezo's wealth will force Amazon's delivery chain to end. What will that do to the cost of shipping by different companies? This is a complex subject, everything I'm writing doesn't even touch the tip of the problem. All I'm sure is that governments should find a way to raise money besides stealing from people, no matter where they money came from.

We are having a civilized discussion here. I guess.... "we’ve become so divided we can’t get out of our own way to help each other anymore." Disgusting really

"Working" is subjective. It depends on parameters of what it means "to work". We can say that 'not getting money that was already taxed' is fair. It is "working" if we consider that people already paid their "debt to society" when they paid their taxes. It is "not working" if we think that distributing half this money would people make every poor less poor, forever. I was once for this kind of stuff, it works well in our imagination and good intentions, but does not in reality. Economy is a very unstable mechanism and messing with it will cause problems that will demand more laws to correct it, which will cause more problems... and so on. But ok, don't trust what I say. Let's see that in practice and it's outcome (ignoring all the times it was tried and went wrong).

Create the laws and see this statement getting mangled by politicians. Why the 0.01% (which once were the 1%) want laws to enforce it to themselves when they could just donate that money? Doesn't make sense to me.

It doesn't matter where the money came from, considering it's not from a crime. Pizza shop? Taxes paid Previous inheritance? Taxes paid Lottery? Taxes paid Doesn't matter where the money came from. It's theirs. If there are plenty of ways to donate there's no reason to make laws forcing everyone to do it.

Government and "politicized" people can't leave others alone even when they DIE. There's a family mourning and they are asking "hey, where's the money, give me the money".... That's fucking cruel no matter how much money we are talking about, even when you think about the "fat capitalist with a top hat" stereotype. The curious thing is that people who support this kind of taxation are often those who don't have an inheritance to pass forward. And when they do have, they don't donate 50% because it's undeserved, they ask for laws to enforce it to himself and others. They just don't live by their own words. Also, when this kind of taxation is implemented and things go wrong, people start pointing fingers at each other and demanding more taxes and lowering the cutoff line, because it's more comfortable than saying "Well, we were wrong... AGAIN. Let's stop doing this.".

If this person's parents took risks, failed, tried again, worked their fingers to the bone to save those $2m, generating value as services or goods to society, so their children wouldn't have to do the same, that means we should take part of it to distribute to other people who also did nothing to earn it? Will we punish people for being successful? It's theirs, they do what they please with their own money. If you think that this money is not deserved and it's yours, then you should donate, distribute or do whatever. It's very simplistic and far from reality to call everyone receiving an inheritance "spoiled little brats" but the fact is that the majority of people work very hard and live on a shoestring to save that amount of money. If we start stealing from their kids the right to those savings, they will just spend everything or evade taxation. TL;DR: doesn't work and when it does, it's unfair.

You know that taxing the rich doesn't work right? I know your intentions are good but that only makes rich people richer and goods more expensive to everyone. I mean, if the richest people in the world are for this crap why they just won't donate or ask for a "voluntary tax" (if that even makes sense) so that they can give money to the government? No, they want all their smaller competitors to go broke. And inheritance taxation? A person pays taxes all his life and when he dies, he has to pay more, because someone thinks he should be distributing his money. And the richest? They hire lawyers to evade the tax. Once again, the richest people don't get a scratch but those just ascending economically get punished.

Many countries had high inflation rates before but never so many of them at the same time. Over 40% of the Money US has EVER printed in its history was printed in 2020. It's gonna get ugly.

You are a legend. I've been trying for two weeks to beat this damn game.

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Talk about knowing your public...

Yes, I live in Brazil. Feel free to PM me.

There's a brazillian ebay-like site called Mercado Livre. I could be an intermediate in buying them and sending to you, if the seller can't ship intl (they most probably can't or won't). Here's a search result for this kind of cartridges, so you can look around: https://lista.mercadolivre.com.br/atari-cartucho-tron-t#D[A:atari cartucho tron T] Cartridge = "cartucho" or "fita" If you use the next quote answer's linked URLs you can get some keywords to search for more. PM me if you need any help. Here's a 30-page long post made by an AtariAge user named "Sr. Ferraz" and it's awesome. It goes from cartridges to ads and everything. From it you can see how prolific Brazil was in making third party stuff for the 2600 https://atariage.com/forums/topic/83572-items-for-atari-2600-manufactured-in-brazil/#comments And a more organized database: http://www.atarimania.com/list_games_atari-2600-vcs-tron-t-handle_label_157_2_G.html We had SO MUCH clones and unofficial publishers that i think MAYBE we were a big part in the 80s vg crash lol.

What are your thoughts on these? Are collectors outside Brazil interested in them?