People Who Grow Up In A Region

We're More Familiar With What Economists Call An English Auction - Prices Start Low And Rise As People Bid. However, There Is Also The Dutch Auction, Where Prices Start High And Go Lower Until Somebody Bites. Movies Are Sold To The Audience Via A Very Slow Dutch Auction, Where Each Phase Between Price Drops Can Last Weeks Or Months.

Words Can Hurt You. In The Larger World, It Frames How People Think About You, And It Can Hurt You In Lots Of Little, Subtle Ways.

We Pay For Content That We Like, And We Like The Content We Pay For. It's A Lot More Satisfying To Pay $7.50 For Steven Spielberg's Next Epic Than It Is To Watch My Home Movies For Free. Even For Me.

In Politics, Religion And Other Areas Of Culture, People Disagree On The Worth Of Competing Ideas. There Is No Equivalent To The Scientific Method That Can Determine In A Robust Way Which Ideas Match The Real World, And Which Ones Can Be Ruled Out. So Conflicting Ideologies Persist Indefinitely.

The Whole Hardware Industry Has Experienced The Phenomenon In Which Every Time Computers Get Cheaper, They Appeal To A New Set Of Users; Every Time They Get More Powerful, Old Customers Upgrade.