Re: Why is Mark Zuckerberg angry at critics in India?

Sir,

I have better things to do with my time that address such profound 
ignorance.

If this is the level of discourse this list has degenerated to, I will 
now take my leave.

Good luck to you all moving forward.

In closing,

Ken DiPietro
Cumberland MD.

On 01/03/2016 02:01 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> What is said about Monopolies are false too. Monopolies are rarely 
> permanent.
> And during the short period  when it is possible for monopolies to 
> generate above market profits
>  for its owners, enough suppliers are attracted to the market with 
> better product
> and business model to make monopolies ineffective.
>
>
> Care to list Monopolies that have survived without government protection?
> Monopolies and inherently unstable and open to attack.
>
> The communist/socialist economist and ideologues have carefully 
> created fear
>  of monopolies to justify government takeover of private businesses.
>
> Sincerely,
> Ratnendra Pandey
>
> On 1/3/2016 10:15 AM, ken wrote:
>> On 01/03/2016 12:28 PM, Ratnendra Pandey wrote:
>>> What ken suggesting about costs and pricing is  misleading and false.
>>>
>>> All prices are paid by consumers.
>>> Repeat with me.
>>> All prices are paid by consumers.
>>
>> Sure, you could look at it that way but that would also not be 
>> entirely accurate.
>>
>> One specific example would be someone who does not subscribe to the 
>> Internet or those who use the net but do not pay for it. In the US, 
>> that percentage is est9mated to be above 30%. I am quite certain that 
>> in India the percentage of the total population who either don't use 
>> the Internet or use it but do not pay for it is significantly higher.
>>
>> In point of fact, you can delude yourself into believing everything 
>> is a supply sided equation but we Americans have learned beyond a 
>> shadow of a doubt that this is a fallacy. The concept of a free 
>> market is exactly that, an idea that is likely to never exist in much 
>> the same way a pure communistic government is unlikely to ever be 
>> feasible. And for what few experiments have been attempted, the end 
>> result is a society where monopolies rule unimpeded.
>>
>> Ken DiPietro
>> Cumberland MD
>
>