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I don't understand how it is you think import tariffs work if not to increase the cost and therefor the price of selling foreign produced goods? It's not an assertion that they do that, it's literally what they do.
You said they make all goods more expensive.
Compounding my confusion are the odd anecdotes you've elected to include.
If it's true that import tariffs make all goods more expensive, then the particular good used to illustrate shouldn't matter should it? But feel free to use as an example any good you like.
I'm not too scared to discuss issues on the merits.
And unafraid to dismiss a book you haven't read based on a review of a review. Which is nothing like discussion an issue on its merit, but it does save time.
I'm not setting up a straw man. That's something someone does when they're trying to win an argument. I'm not arguing anything. I'm just pointing out that the author has misrepresented the truth for the sake of his narrative. That's something I don't expect in a Techdirt story. I felt the same way when the original story ran.
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I'm not an economist, but I'm deeply skeptical of the assertion that import tariffs are making goods more expensive. I know that my domestic car was many thousand dollars cheaper than an import would have been, and for many years the price of that model has increased only as much as I'd expect from inflation. Domestically produced foods are generally a lot cheaper than imported.
Can you elaborate on your thesis? I can't square it with my experience at all.
A couple of weeks ago, Techdirt wrote about a store that was trying to charge customers $5 for "just looking", because it felt that many people were merely inspecting goods there before then buying them online.
This wasn't the motive at all. It wasn't about buying online. It wasn't about inspecting goods. It was about using the proprietor's time, experience and knowledge. This was explained many times in the comments:
For ages I've felt the need for a good, scholarly history of the sound recording. When I was an undergrad studying music, there wasn't much available beyond sweeping surveys that restricted themselves either to itemizing the advances in technology or to presenting a succession of biographical and career sketches of recording artists. I never found one that adequately examined the recording as a cultural phenomenon. Looks like here may be the book I've been wanting.
At Amazon, you can preview a good sampling of the book. It's very well-written, serious in purpose and tone, but nonetheless entertaining. The first chapter deals with the early days of the sound recording, and Cummings wittily seizes on the irony of the dog Nipper and the slogan "His Master's Voice". "The dog looks rapt and attentive, as if his master were standing right there." Originally the dog was pictured listening to a cylinder, which could actually be recorded on by the user, so it was conceivable it could actually be his master's voice. When the image was adopted by Victor as their emblem, the cylinder was replaced by a phonograph, "a medium that did not allow consumers to make their own recordings. Unless the dog belonged to a recording artist like Enrico Caruso, [the record] was unlikely to feature the actual voice of his master." Cummings establishes a pattern of consumer involvement is transmuted into passive reception that I hope is repeated throughout the book. I'm looking forward to reading this.
If Shax made money from the theatre, it was as a shareholder, period. There's not a single contemporary record of payment to him either as an actor or a writer. He and his family seem to have made their fortune in the grain business, particularly during time of famine when they were accused of hoarding.
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If it's true that import tariffs make all goods more expensive, then the particular good used to illustrate shouldn't matter should it? But feel free to use as an example any good you like.
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Re: Re: There's more to life than economic efficiency.
Can you elaborate on your thesis? I can't square it with my experience at all.
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It wasn't about "buying them online"
This wasn't the motive at all. It wasn't about buying online. It wasn't about inspecting goods. It was about using the proprietor's time, experience and knowledge. This was explained many times in the comments:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130326/16500822469/dumb-policy-store-charges-5-just -to-look-goods-to-keep-people-looking-then-buying-online.shtml#c120
https://www.techdirt.com/articl es/20130326/16500822469/dumb-policy-store-charges-5-just-to-look-goods-to-keep-people-looking-then-b uying-online.shtml#c292
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130326/16500822469/dumb-policy-store-ch arges-5-just-to-look-goods-to-keep-people-looking-then-buying-online.shtml#c339
https://www.techdir t.com/articles/20130326/16500822469/dumb-policy-store-charges-5-just-to-look-goods-to-keep-people-lo oking-then-buying-online.shtml#c695
I realize you refer back to that story from the present one in order to create a sense of narrative, but you are simply wrong.
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At Amazon, you can preview a good sampling of the book. It's very well-written, serious in purpose and tone, but nonetheless entertaining. The first chapter deals with the early days of the sound recording, and Cummings wittily seizes on the irony of the dog Nipper and the slogan "His Master's Voice". "The dog looks rapt and attentive, as if his master were standing right there." Originally the dog was pictured listening to a cylinder, which could actually be recorded on by the user, so it was conceivable it could actually be his master's voice. When the image was adopted by Victor as their emblem, the cylinder was replaced by a phonograph, "a medium that did not allow consumers to make their own recordings. Unless the dog belonged to a recording artist like Enrico Caruso, [the record] was unlikely to feature the actual voice of his master." Cummings establishes a pattern of consumer involvement is transmuted into passive reception that I hope is repeated throughout the book. I'm looking forward to reading this.
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