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I was playing the game "Simcity", and I took your advice. I had no taxes. I built no police stations, no fire stations, no schools, and no hospitals.

Interestingly enough, I lost. Why is that?
 
Watermark said:
I was playing the game "Simcity", and I took your advice. I had no taxes. I built no police stations, no fire stations, no schools, and no hospitals.

Interestingly enough, I lost. Why is that?
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Because it is a silly game. And nobody has suggested there be no police. Don't be such an EMO troll.
 
Beefy said:
Stick to that then. Everybody's good at something.
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It's all about finding what you are good at doing and enjoy. If that is building card houses then congratulations Watermark. You are ahead of the game my friend.
 
Obviously you lost because the creators of the game were, first, pummelled into submission by the drip drip propaganda of the Liberal media before the brainwashing process was completed by the militant socialistic faculty at college.

Computer programmers? Commissar programmers more like.
 
Watermark said:
I was playing the game "Simcity", and I took your advice. I had no taxes. I built no police stations, no fire stations, no schools, and no hospitals.

Interestingly enough, I lost. Why is that?
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Because the game, much like you, is stupid and based on assumptions that those services can not be provided but by government. The sims (people in the game) are virtually automotons whose behavior is highly predictable and so your idiotic ideas might work in that unreality, but nowhere else.
 
The people are smarter than central planners. Investors make boat loads of money by responding to government actions (and some confuse that as understanding economics). They could be actually making money by responding to the wants of the people, but that game is a little harder.
 
RStringfield said:
Because the game, much like you, is stupid and based on assumptions that those services can not be provided but by government. The sims (people in the game) are virtually automotons whose behavior is highly predictable and so your idiotic ideas might work in that unreality, but nowhere else.
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ROFL!

I think Watermark (unintentionally) reveals something about how lefties minds view the economy and life though, the market in how people interact and build/trade based on billions of individual decisions is far too incredibly complex to simulate in any program.
It's much easier and more simplistic to understand to have one centralized giant decisionmaker who just creates everything from a strictly top-down approach. And the approach appeals to the left.

SimCity was fun when I played it as a teen, a lot of my friends had the game too. Just about everyone I knew once they built their city would eventually start unleashing disaster on the city and watch the little ant like people scurry around in panic.
It's probably a stronger warning than you'd expect of how absolute power can corrupt and to a degree explains why every single move to more authoritarian Socialism in the 20th century (and today) eventually ends in the higher up people who want to help people eventually turn on those same people.
 
The old busness rules and assumptions are not holding up very well in the global economic reality of today.
the rules of the game have changed, but most are still trying to play by the old rules.
 
uscitizen said:
The old busness rules and assumptions are not holding up very well in the global economic reality of today.
the rules of the game have changed, but most are still trying to play by the old rules.
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No most are playing by the new rules (ie: Sarbanes-Oxley), if they don't they get thrown in jail. Too bad, the old rules were more than adequate, they need to crack down harder on those who do fraud, NOT force law-abiding businesses to record every last thing they do to try and prevent fraud.

The trillions lost in productivity far outweigh the billions that a handful of bad companies lost.
 
Liberano said:
ROFL!

I think Watermark (unintentionally) reveals something about how lefties minds view the economy and life though, the market in how people interact and build/trade based on billions of individual decisions is far too incredibly complex to simulate in any program.
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Yeah, you might as well use computer models to predict global warming. :)
 
uscitizen said:
The old busness rules and assumptions are not holding up very well in the global economic reality of today.
the rules of the game have changed, but most are still trying to play by the old rules.
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Huh? Explain.

No, most are not playing by old rules. Most continuously adapt to the rules and game the system.
 
RStringfield said:
Yeah, you might as well use computer models to predict global warming. :)
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LOL. It's funny but true.
Most of the programmers I know trust the climate change models the least, we all spend far too much time fixing bugs to have that degree of faith in something that complex with so many variables over such a long period of time.
 
Superfreak said:
Ok, I have seen it many times, now is the time to ask.... what does EMO stand for?
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Emo is a teen "subculture" movement full of crying whiny teens who listen to music whining about girls who don't like the artists. They generally cut themselves, follow one big emo "leader", write terrible poetry, and where black. They are distantly related to goths.
 
Watermark said:
Emo is a teen "subculture" movement full of crying whiny teens who listen to music whining about girls who don't like the artists. They generally cut themselves, follow one big emo "leader", write terrible poetry, and where black. They are distantly related to goths.
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I thought it stood for
Emotional Manic O'neal

You're not as famous as I thought.
 
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