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What does the owner of the robot factory making 10,000 shoes a day do with the shoes? Celebrate the entrepreneurs who simultaneously provide cheap shoes to the masses and to those who provide the masses with ways to get the shoes.

Yawn. How many times have we had variants of this thread? From two years ago for example:

US bond market crash in progress?

Looked it up and unfortunately his plates got cancelled after the photo went viral :(

Until everyone cottons on to CJ's practice of forcefeeding the dog to triple his daily supply before moving on to secreting extra dogs away in the basement and pretending that the original dog is now producing 20kg a day. Inflation skyrockets and everyone's savings are worth shit.

The 2nd guy looks waaaaay too happy.

Attended a lender's presentation in Sydney yesterday and during the Q&A someone (not me) said "vicissitudes". It's mainstream. :)

Boss: Know why I called you in here? Me: Because I accidentally sent you a d*ck pic? Boss: [stops pouring two glasses of wine] Accidentally?

I wonder what causes that? Perhaps a combination of keeping one eye of the perceived threat of the cat at the same time as keeping one eye on their fellow turkeys (because to survive you only need to be able to outrun the slowest turkey)?

The dreaded asymmetric information problem. Have a read of the start of the thread which showed real-world tangible solutions to this very problem before socialised socialist medicine existed. In particular, take note of the 3rd group of service providers which encompasses a wide variety of...

I'd just say that if "too many options" is a problem* then there is automatically a market opportunity for reducing the number of options. Indeed, pretty much every shopkeeper does this as a matter of course. They restrict the number of products available to ones that they think match the range...

A couple of decades ago I won first prize at the regional art show with a work I titled "Vicissitudes of life" :D I like expressive words like this and I only tend to dumb them down if I expect renovator's going to read my post.

France is going well.

I saw the difference :)

Or they could call it a "mutual" system like the old days. ;) It's a bit like the term "sharing economy" being touted like it was something new when it's been around for millenia.

Yes, the post was about a contemporary emergence of a voluntary system for obtaining inexpensive health care. Worth noting that the "Concierge medicine" approach was previously one of the models that the Friendlies implemented. As stated near the start of the thread there is no...

Best part is that you can switch to another provider if they don't live up to your expectations.

I don't think it has anything to do with "a perfect world". It simply is the reality of people living their lives.