"... to allow artists to get paid every time their artwork is sold."
Of course, the flip side is artist would have to pay if their art was ever sold at a loss. Life isn't a ratchet; you can't expect to have a perpetual upside.
Canada's per capita health costs are HALF the United States because of one simple thing: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Diabetes is easy to control early, but expensive to control late. This is the same for all diseases! Yes, rich Canadians go to the US to get medical treatment when things look bad, because you guys are experts at the "pound of cure" stuff. I'll take an "ounce of prevention" society any day, AND PAY LESS TAXES FOR IT!
Have you been in a school in the last 10 years? You can't have teachers trying to "confiscate" stuff from kids. What are you going to do if that 17 year-old, 6'2", 220 lb "kid" doesn't want to give it up?
Who's the bigger idiot? The guy who bought a $400K house or the idiot who lent him the money? The real question is who should have known better, and that is clearly the bank who gave him the loan. Banks thru away all their lending standards for greed and they should pay the price.
Ask any novelist, editor, or screenwriter. "Ideas" are a dime a dozen. Execution is the key. The 20,000 words in a novel, organized the way they are, are what can be copyrighted. Saying that the idea "Boy Wizard In High School" is even remotely equivalent to the books that J.K. wrote is ridiculous.
There are two ways to reduce bubbles. First, make rules when everything is calm and then stick to them when irrational euphoria sets in. For example, if the traditional mortgage 28-36 rules (28% house payment-income ratio, 36% debt-income ratio) were adhered to by banks, this bubble would *not* have happened. Second, when bubbles do happen, do not interfere with the market; let the companies that made bad choices fail. The idea that bubbles are unavoidable, that "no one is to blame but ourselves", is nonsense.
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Of course, the flip side is artist would have to pay if their art was ever sold at a loss. Life isn't a ratchet; you can't expect to have a perpetual upside.
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Who's the bigger idiot? The guy who bought a $400K house or the idiot who lent him the money? The real question is who should have known better, and that is clearly the bank who gave him the loan. Banks thru away all their lending standards for greed and they should pay the price.
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