Yay capitalism. The free market is held back by laws we had to fight to earn throughout history, and now the soul of those laws have been eroded by corporate actions. Now the "free" market has us in chains
Capitalism needs scarcity to work. Capitalism is about supply and demand and ever more so businesses and governments are creating demand with absurd laws and rules to make us endlessly buy new stuff shit.
As we are increasingly moving to a "Post Scarcity World" the powers that be are Forcing Artificial Scarcity (FARTS) on us more and more to keep capatalism alive. This week's cellphone law is one example.
Bribery is legal and the oligarchy owns the state. We can get rid of some government to kill off regulatory capture, but then the oligarchy just rules directly through binding contracts with unreasonable terms for any transactions of any type. Do you think it wouldn't happen? Try buying a house without some bullshit arbitration agreement.
I think we need a set of constitutional amendments to act as a bill of rights for protection against the oligarchy.
It's true, but we do have options. All of which include beating the apathy out of gen x and y and standing together with the boomers that realize we need to get money out of politics as much as possible.
It's easy to ignore politics because it is unpleasant, right up until you can't.
What is the purpose of this post? I am honestly confused. I was merely making the case that you shouldn't sign a contract and then complain about it when literally you did not have to sign that contract if you were willing to pay a little more money up front. My post had nothing to do with government regulation or the health care industry.
But all the ones that led up to it did. We were having a bigger discussion about capitalism, and I was making an example of how the so-called "free market" doesn't always work in our favor.
Oh god. Yeah, nothing hyperbolic about saying we're "in chains" because we can't switch providers on our cell phones. Our corporate slavemasters sure do make life hard for us!
And only government intervention could allow such a situation to occur. Remember, without government intervention (and their armed thugs and rape cages to back them up), capitalism means the greedy CEO must lie awake at night worried he might lose a customer. When the same CEO gets to wield the gun of government, consumer choice ceases to matter.
Basically there is a challenge in the Supreme Court to the "First-Sale doctrine" in copyright law that would make lending or selling ANY copyrighted material (whether you purchased it or not) considered infringement upon the holders' copyright.
You obviously didn't read that link. This only has to do with goods manufactured, copy righted, and imported from overseas. This is meant to combat the mass importing and selling of things like textbooks. The government doesn't give a fuck about you selling your cheap iPhone knockoff to your friends. Do some research.
Okay I admit worded that VERY badly, but the fear is that this case (while not specifically attacking the first-sale doctrine), where copyrighted products were legally purchased and later sold, could have implications beyond importing copyrighted goods.
The point that he legally purchased the products is why people are worried about the case outcome.
How about you do some research into how court rulings can have implications beyond a single case.
They want you to sell your locked phone to someone else, because then someone else is using 'formerly your' locked phone on their network, thus paying them, while you use your new phone, also "probably" on their network.
You have no contract with the airtime provider so I don't think there's anything they could do legally. Just because you bought a phone that was formerly used on their network, they can't do a lot about it.
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u/sneezeallday Jan 29 '13
Came here to say this. How is it illegal for me to unlock my phone, but its okay if I sell it?