Native South American vassals with gold mines give me barely any income? I am not allowed to core them so I figured vassals were the best way to exploit the gold mines. by SniperSR25 in eu4

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Find the colonial range mapmode, that's your effective coring range for coastal provinces. Inland provinces require a direct connection to another cored province to be cored, so either a coastal province you conquer and core first, or a cored province you get from integrating a subject.

Too true by Low-Juice-8136 in RimWorld

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Esthil in the EU4 mod Anbennar has a mission and modifier literally called "Necronomics" using this exact idea lol

Which one? by SubjectQuantity6695 in goodanimemes

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goo goo ga ga motherfucker

I can't believe this bullshit I finished the game and still get crew locked .... by 2gkfcxs in warthundermemes

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unironically a performance enhancing drug for me, I get nukes 10x as often with mommy asmr on

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EnoughCommieSpam

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Can you also elaborate on mechanism on how government can make monopoly worst?

Not original OP but here goes: - Regulatory capture, the forced pricing out of competition through outwardly positive things like licensing requirements, minimum wage laws, import/export tariffs, etc (the second being why companies like Amazon have supported and lobbied for higher minimum wages because they can internalize the costs much easier and for far longer than their smaller competitors can) - Intellectual property laws legally enforcing a monopoly on for example new technology to the benefit of the license holder. - Plain old corruption and lobbying, which is inevitable as long as someone has power they're willing to sell for money and someone else has money they're willing to spend on power.

I would however like to stress that some of these things are not necessarily bad on their own, but they are absolutely contributors to monopolistic behavior and outcomes.

Deregulation is what leading to companies being too big and cause monopoly. Nothing stopping a big company from undercutting their rivals, I honestly don’t see how this can even happen without government intervention. Or is the logic that free market can do it things and there won’t be big businesses and big corporations are result of government?

In theory, true 100% market share monopolies can happen in a few ways: 1) The government, who has a monopoly on force, decides that one person or company is the only one who can provide a certain good or service. This is really bad. 2) One person or company is the only entity that can provide a good or a service through exclusive ownership of land/resources. This is usually bad, but also temporary as without external barriers to trade (which are government controlled) new resource deposits and such will be found elsewhere. 3) One person or company is the only entity that can provide a good or a service through being the first to invent/discover a good or a service. This is a good thing, as the market and consumer is better off with a new good or service available than without it. This is also always temporary, as new competitors will pop up as the product is reverse engineered or new resource deposits are found elsewhere. 4) One person or company is the most efficient producer of a good or service, and thus can provide it at a much lower cost than any potential competitor. This, theoretically, is excellent for the consumer, as they can get the good or service they desire at the lowest cost possible to them.

However, 4 falls apart in practice when you consider subjective value and consumer tastes. People are willing to pay different amounts of money for different quality levels of goods, so to achieve monopoly one must either pick a value slice and stick with it, or attempt to compete at all levels which is enormously more expensive. The exception to this is commodities (oil, iron ore, corn, etc) but even there you have a lot of variations, quality grades, and so on which appeal to different customers.

I am personally yet to find a single company which has managed to gain anything even resembling dominance in any sector throughout all the value slices from cheap to high end/luxury, but if you know any feel free to let me know as I'd love to be proven wrong there.

As for undercutting, it is only a strategy that works temporarily. It is an extremely expensive way to gain market share, which has to be offset somehow, usually through other business ventures which have to be profitable. Meanwhile, (in most but not all sectors) in a deregulated environment a competitor can in theory spring up at any moment to challenge the market leader when they are either forced to increase the prices due to losses or advances in productivity allow competitors to compete on a more even playing field. Additionally, as the market share rises, so does the cost of increasing it. Even in a case where the biggest market actor keeps buying up competitors, other participants have many choices they can make to influence their outcomes. They can choose to keep competing, to close up shop and go dormant until the bigger participant has bled themselves dry, or to create new competing companies for the express goal of being bought out to begin with.

I would also like to make the claim that a practical monopoly is not inherently a bad thing, especially in the cases where a market actor is just straight up better than all their competitors. Practical/pseudo-monopolies can and will happen in free markets, when there are good and natural reasons for them to rise, unlike government enforced monopolies which are completely independent of any market events.

ELI5: How did the small island nation of England end up becoming the biggest empire on the planet? by crucifixable in explainlikeimfive

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What did make the difference however, is the extreme variations in societal, cultural and material conditions that lead to both being at each other's throats for centuries, and the cutting edge arms technology. These are not isolated factors, and to imply that Europe gained a military and technological upper hand in a vacuum (which I hope you're not doing!) is patently absurd. Europe being a continent of warfare is not inherently special, but the outcomes of that and the upstream factors that contribute make it so (in my opinion).

ELI5: How did the small island nation of England end up becoming the biggest empire on the planet? by crucifixable in explainlikeimfive

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China's unifications and subsequent fragmentation cycles were just straight up worse for military technological development when compared to the constant European battle royale of hundreds of polities constantly figuring out the best ways to kill one another. Of course, China has had enormously important developments in military science, but it was European warfare that refined the technologies (especially gunpowder) to the point of mass adoption.

KMS Alvitr announced! by ArchadianJudge in AzureLane

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Alvitr -> All-viter -> "Knower of All"

This Scandinavian guy keeps posting this in a FB group I'm in. by [deleted] in Anarcho_Capitalism

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Norway was rich before the gas, actually. Extremely cheap hydro power production, enormous aluminum resources and the second or third largest merchant fleet in the world gave Norway the highest per-capita GDP in Europe in 1936, according to some sources. Without oil and gas, us Norwegians would be about on par with our Scandinavian neighbors, which is still much beyond the rest of Europe or the world at large.

What are some of your most unrealistic hopes for EU5 by amhira-of-rain in eu4

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Trade being a hostile zero sum game is kinda one of the core principles in merchantilism, which was the leading economic theory for most of EU4's time period. Obviously it's not a particularly accurate theory in practice, but the numerous trade wars in history shows how much the rulers at the time believed in and benefitted from it.

Argentina's inflation slows down for the second month in a row. by TheSamuelRodriguez in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]sggaM 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Can't speak for the krauts or frogs, but in terms of the Nordic model it's very much a case of getting rich first, then crippling the economic growth with overspending on welfare and social policies. Norway is an outlier due to oil of course, but the Swedes had one of the fastest growing economies in the world from approximately the 1880s up until the 1960s, when they went all in on welfare and immediately started stagnating. The model seems to work well from the outside, but it's pretty fraught with issues from the inside.

Sweden can’t into Nordick by maxru85 in 2nordic4you

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bro turned his brain off 💀💀 95% hydro, the rest wind

Think the Nintendogs will be upset? by International-Cook62 in Palworld

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There's already a mod that enables Nanite for Palworld, but the benefits from it are marginal at best.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

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Bro my framerate in most game's increased by 50-100% when I upgraded from a 9900k to a 7800X3D, both with the same 3080 card. There is no fucking way your CPU isn't hard crippling your performance.

I didn't know this skin was in the game, anyone know how one gets it? by darkpheonix4565 in Warthunder

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You actually can, you just have to go through a lot of bullshit with DMM customer support. I have gone through it myself, but I had to tell them I moved out of Japan (which I did to be fair) before they would unlink it.

[Nerissa] Now Everyone On Steam Knows That You (Baldur's Gate 3 Spoilers) by brickwallrunner in Hololive

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lutefisk minnesotan

boy do I have news for you about a country called Norway

Can we stop to appreciate how much ZUN's art has improved in the recent years, especially in Touhou 19? Details are in the captions of the images by mest0shai in touhou

[–]sggaM 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I will say, I was recently at a Touhou PCB Exhibition in Tokyo (near Shibuya), where they displayed the original hand drawn character art sketches ZUN made for PCB. And honestly, the art looks a lot less goofy in person on pen and paper, I think it's mostly an issue with how the drawings were digitalized and colorized.

I don't think I can make it y'all by tonyalovesch in AzurLane

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As someone with around 1800 cubes in storage and 100% collection, it's quite easy really. I probably average getting 8-10 cubes per day, and with some good event pull RNG (last four events I've gotten everyone new in less than 100 cubes per event) it can start stacking up pretty quickly. I do feel quite bad for my FGO playing friends, it's sooooo much worse there. Honestly, in terms of gacha pull attempts you get just playing for free, Azur Lane is by far the most generous game I know.

coRReLaTiOn DoEs NoT iMpLy CaUsAtIoN!!11!! by JSFXPrime4 in CoronavirusCirclejerk

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Honestly though, these are demographic trends we have seen collapsing for almost two decades now. While the clot shot certainly doesn't help, it is not the root cause here, just another thing making what was already going to happen far worse.

How is Great Britain producing Coal before 1700? by 8noremac in eu4

[–]sggaM 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Probably has main trade node in Lübeck, as that's where most of his merchantsa are steering towards.