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mmerijn t1_jdcm871 wrote
Reply to comment by CAJ_2277 in [Image] Feel your feelings…. by DelusionalWeed
Dwelling on feelings is often to avoid them. Feeling means being in the moment.
mmerijn t1_j2wcf52 wrote
Reply to comment by agwaragh in European economies have developed stronger anti-trust regulations, more competitive markets, and more robust consumer protection than the US in the last 20 years. The reason for this is the EU. EU member states are incentivized to empower a strongly independent pro-competition regulator. by smurfyjenkins
That was exactly what I was referring to though?
mmerijn t1_j2ufape wrote
Reply to comment by agwaragh in European economies have developed stronger anti-trust regulations, more competitive markets, and more robust consumer protection than the US in the last 20 years. The reason for this is the EU. EU member states are incentivized to empower a strongly independent pro-competition regulator. by smurfyjenkins
Free "markets" do, but what we have is a little bigger than a market nowadays. Social relations and reputation tended to follow you around back in the day, nowadays you can defraud millions of people before you get a reputation that might catch up to you for some people.
So yeah, we need regulation. but mostly because the concept of a market doesn't scale up perfectly from tens of millions of people to billions of people (due to the market now being more global than ever).
mmerijn t1_iw2z2qj wrote
Reply to comment by SylvariFountain in [Image] Your choice... by Gainsborough-Smythe
Took me a solid 10, most of which was spent figuring out exactly what it meant to be depressed and how it worked. Most of which ended up being not what I was told by psychologists and the like, or being something I wasn't told (because it more personal).
mmerijn t1_je999cv wrote
Reply to comment by VGVideo in [WP] You are a budget mage. While most of your colleagues use costly ingredients, rituals that take weeks to prepare and use a new spell for every problem, you only know a few spells, use common household ingredients and prepare rituals within minutes. They unjustly deride your work as shoddy. by Kitty_Fuchs
And the dirt is gone!