I am exactly the same; why are we like this?

DVDs just aren’t bigger than grapefruits.

Depends on jurisdiction.

Posting SMBC without the votey is a war crime under the ICC.

Nah, the attitude expressed here makes the water utility less money, and hence makes no sense in the US.

Why would they shut off your power? You’d be paying for the extra power being delivered to you, right? Why would they care what you did with it?

And regardless, that’s a far cry from it being illegal.

But that’s not the question I was asked. Answering the question I was asked doesn’t make my answer a strawman.

I don’t think that word means what you think it means.

of or characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes.

“a rich, bored, bourgeois family”

You dislike the middle class?

Corruption is no more likely in capitalism than in any other system.

Every system has flaws, to be sure - e.g. in Saudi Arabia, which is as anticapitalist as possible due to the government owning everything, all wealth is concentrated in the monarch - and capitalism is no exception. My answer to you has to be specific to certain types of goods, because for other types, capitalism will absolutely fail in the manner you describe and needs government regulation not to.

In this context, I will use “fail” to mean the failure you asked about, only 1 wealthy person.

Example where capitalism will generally not fail, and, in fact, has never failed in recorded history: restaurants. If our mysterious wealthy person attempts to own every restaurant simultaneously, someone else will open a rival restaurant and the plan will fail (and even if somehow no one could open a rival anywhere, people could choose to eat at home). No one in any country has ever managed to own every restaurant at once.

Example where capitalism will absolutely fail over time: oil. It is trivial, given enough time, for one person to eventually own all access to oil - Rockefeller is a great example of someone working hard at this, successfully.

That’s not true at all. Capitalism has many flaws, but your claim is simply false.

I’m guessing you’re conflating capitalism with the deeply non-capitalist legal structures that have been erected on top of it in most of the world. One of the most common examples is corporate welfare, which is exactly as capitalist as welfare for private citizens. I’m not trying to attack or defend welfare with this statement, but I am emphasizing that that’s not how capitalism works.

So they claimed!

Bravo. I didn’t even go mental, I pointed out Africa has black people in it to disprove their claim that all black people are culturally American. They didn’t stammer, but they sure did get mad.

Careful, the thing a Hexbear likes most is when they trick you into engaging.

If you block every one you meet and move on with your life, you’ll be much happier.

Yep. Not too long ago I tried to explain this to some other Lemmings, and I got severely downvoted. They did not like hearing that ethnicity doesn’t imply a mental/cultural monolith.

Stop linking xkcd without including the alt-text.

Unless you consented, she’s cheating on you.

No such thing as a safe dog.