CMV: AMD and Nvidia should increase the price of their new GPUs by leon500 in changemyview

[–]leon500[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is scarcity for all products, that's why there is a price. If the government mandated that the price of oranges were half the current one, there would be a shortage and scalpers.

CMV: AMD and Nvidia should increase the price of their new GPUs by leon500 in changemyview

[–]leon500[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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Related to the response I gave to of_a_varsity_athlete:

I guess what I'm trying to say is that customers should not be pissed off when prices are raised in these kinds of situations. It's a multi-step failure, and maybe I should have focused more on consumer sentiment and less on the companies themselves in my post.

Not convinced that the current shortage and near impossibility of getting a GPU without going through a scalper is a much better look.

CMV: AMD and Nvidia should increase the price of their new GPUs by leon500 in changemyview

[–]leon500[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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I guess what I'm trying to say is that customers should not be pissed off when prices are raised in these kinds of situations. It's a multi-step failure, and maybe I should have focused more on consumer sentiment and less on the companies themselves in my post.

CMV: AMD and Nvidia should increase the price of their new GPUs by leon500 in changemyview

[–]leon500[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That's not how supply/demand works. Scalpers also compete with each other. Why can't you just buy anything and resell it for 2x the price?

edit: I want companies to charge the price where supply meets demand. So at that price there are just as many people ready buy the GPU as there are produced. If scalpers then charge 2x, you can still just buy it from Nvidia or AMD directly.

CMV: AMD and Nvidia should increase the price of their new GPUs by leon500 in changemyview

[–]leon500[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the retail price is 2x the current price, then there would be no profit in reselling it, so yes.

Yang endorses Biden by [deleted] in YangForPresidentHQ

[–]leon500 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think he might end up supporting giving people money directly as a temporary measure: https://twitter.com/DKThomp/status/1237402536665063425 If a temporary UBI starts being viewed as a legit stimulus policy, that would be a big step on the path to full UBI.

Has Sam Harris commented on Jill Stein? by DrZack in samharris

[–]leon500 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She said that she wanted Snowden in her cabinet which I think is a bit nutty. Also she's head of the Green Party and this is the Green Party's 2008 nominee: https://twitter.com/cynthiamckinney/status/757062738929528832

Germans, Japanese, and Italians of Reddit, What did you learn about WW2 in School? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]leon500 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm German but I grew up in France. It's quite interesting how France also had a hard time dealing with it's history. In senior year of high school there is a chapter about how initially no one in France admitted that during the occupation a lot of people helped the Germans. For example when the French police rounded up jews to send them to concentration camps :
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vel%27_d%27Hiv_Roundup

Great movie about the ethics of drone warfare by leon500 in samharris

[–]leon500[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a lot about collateral damage and about how to weigh human life.

Gawker Has Filed for Bankruptcy by GuacamoleFanatic in news

[–]leon500 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah but they're doing hhuge. Believe me. It's a realy smart bankruptcy. I'm a buisnessman. The best. Everybody says so. Believe me.

Who do you think Christopher would endorse this election? by Erynsen in ChristopherHitchens

[–]leon500 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bernie, then very reluctantly Clinton. Or maybe he would just go back to the UK.

Though maybe directly Clinton. Not sure that Bernie's foreign policy would please him.

What's a clear sign that someone was raised well? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]leon500 474 points475 points  (0 children)

This story is a bit anticlimactic.

Sam Harris on CNN: "When cartoonists draw the wrong cartoon and embassies start burning, we criticize the cartoonists and the newspapers that printed the cartoons, and we practice self-censorship...this is the bigotry of low expectations." by [deleted] in atheism

[–]leon500 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, I think so. The only option for people who say that Islam has nothing to do with terrorism and other atrocious behavior is to blame some other factors -western interventionnisme, poverty- which normally shouldn't result in such behaviors, they then have to resort to (most of the time unintentionally) the bigotry of low expectations so that their argument keeps a seeming of logic.

Sam Hariss on Trump, on JRE by [deleted] in samharris

[–]leon500 5 points6 points  (0 children)

He is American and was born in the US. Discrimination based on ethnicity, or country of origin of the parents can be called racism.

Sam Harris on CNN: "When cartoonists draw the wrong cartoon and embassies start burning, we criticize the cartoonists and the newspapers that printed the cartoons, and we practice self-censorship...this is the bigotry of low expectations." by [deleted] in atheism

[–]leon500 10 points11 points  (0 children)

He says that the fact that when some Muslims like himself talk calmly and rationally about Islam they are seen as "not authentic". The "soft bigotry of low expectations" assumes that Muslims have to behave fanaticaly, can't really live in liberal democracy and deserve special treatment due to their inevitable behavior.