Tariffs and sky high audio prices.

On free trade and markets, here's a classic essay that should be read if you haven't done so before. I found it in video form:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYO3tOqDISE

@oregonpapa 

Thanks for posting the link. It reminded me of those times in school where the teacher had to leave the room so they would put on a film strip! In short, that is surely an idealized version of free trade and I wish it were that simple.

Life is like a game of musical chairs. When the music stops playing and your best friend is left without a chair, what do you do? As a society (I'm talking the society of mankind, not residents of Boogerville), are we willing to share our chair with someone who has no chair? Would you like to be without a chair (or food,or shelter) and absolutely no one was willing to help? The purest democracy on earth right now seems to be India. Pure democracy works but it sure looks alot like a Darwinesque -survival of the fittest - Hunger Games kind of existence. Much like being forced to listen only to a Bose Wave Radio (dig how I just threaded the needle to make this post about audio).

Boogerville is on my bucket list, along with the lessor 7 Wonders of the World.

@nonoise 

Lessor 7 wonders of the world?

Hmmm, does a Chic-fil-a open on a Sunday with death metal playing on the Muzak a qualifying event to be considered for wonderdom?

@ghasley 

In this New World Order that we now live in, it would rank right up their with the Griswold's recent visit to England. 

And make as much sense.

All the best,
Nonoise