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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
When you use personally insulting and condescending attitude you are not having a discussion, keep that in mind please.
You grew up in an intellectually antagonistic environment and that is fine, but I grew up in a physically antagonistic environment, and daily I'm still in those hoods, and men don't talk to each other that way. You can't be condescending to folks in a personal way, you kept attacking me personally and that is where I lost my temper. You are ALWAYS free to attack my ideas, but please try your best to avoid making it a personal matter, and if you must, at least be a bit nicer about it, again, if you're going to use fighting words, expect a fight.
Thanks for the apology, I SINCERELY and deeply appreciate that, and again, it is mutual.
Remember I'm like James Meredith, "I am at war with the system, not the people., and I'm still at war." The war is about saving people, not hurting them, so please don't try to hurt me to prove a point, even if just intellectually or emotionally.
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i think i wasn't being condescending in order to prove a point (though that can be disputed of course), but i know i went on full-mockery mode
when i gave up on any hope of reasoning with you. which, okay, was unfair, unkind, etc,( i could just have quit posting)--but damn, i am only human and the temptation was too big.
now, let me say, i understand your hood background and i'm familiar with similar environments, but you'll agree with me the hood isn't a hotbed of science and intellect precisely because intellectual disagreement is trumped by physical altercation. so you gotta change your musical register as you move between worlds.
now let's get the fuck back to arguing, for fucks sakes. first: in a free market economy prices are simply a means of communication between buyer and seller. second: the success of a business does not profit "the business" as some sort of isolated entity, but its shareholders-- and who are the biggest shareholders? not "millionaires," but institutional investors-- pension funds and other entities that secure the retirement of our elders, and it's the success of apple and other companies that keeps people with a lifetime of hard work from having to eat alpo in their old age.
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http://www.tutor2u.net/economics/rev...mechanism.html
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http://www.investopedia.com/articles...#axzz2818lmWOV