Yup, the free market concept breaks down when you’re dealing with a demand curve that’s almost completely inelastic. (That is, when an increase in price doesn’t cause any decrease in demand, because consumers need the product or service to live and consider “being alive” to be worth infinity dollars.)

If you’d read up, you’d know the answer. If the only folks buying the maternity rider are pregnant women, then there’s no distribution of risk or cost.

 Sure, it’ll be more affordable on the front end - because it doesn’t pay anything when you need it. If your car insurance costs $10/mo but doesn’t cover any damage over $50, what the fuck good is it? For most people, the old “affordable” plans were like that.

It’s about making insurance more affordable to healthy single childless men in their 20/30s, and less affordable for everyone else in society, including the parents they probably will become and the sick old people they definitely will become.

Right, do they really think they’ll just be young and healthy forever? What’s next - let’s end Social security taxes, because young healthy people don’t need it?

Racism doesn’t require a person to be a Neo-Nazi that jerks off thinking about murdering minorities.

Why the ketchup, though? At that quantity, you’d get better flavor for less money by using pureed canned tomato.

That’s not really shameful though......

When I was a kid I would slice little pieces of velveeta and eat them on saltines. Which was not remotely the weirdest thing I liked as a kid.

Not even first class, just better vs worse economy flights. Upgrading to first class on a transpacific flight is like $5000.

I think a lot of Americans only take short domestic flights that cost like $250, so a few hundred bucks means increasing your ticket price by 100% for the sake of nicer flight attendant and amenities. But if you’re taking a flight from NYC to Seoul, that same increase is, of course, only like a 10-20% increase in…

Unfortunately a lot of folks in retail/food service/similar try to save money & boost short-term profit margins by cutting payroll down to the bone. Companies will do things like provide strict weekly limits on the number of payroll hours the store is allowed, and the manager will get penalized if they go over and…

Certainly not as anything more than a rare treat, anyway. They’re basically coffee milkshakes. Or not even coffee, apparently, in this case.

As a business owner, I know that, if I advertise a special promotion, I need to have an adequate plan, resources and staffing to support that promotion. If you say “buy this special thing now!” and then you don’t have enough of the special thing, or you can’t serve your customers in a timely manner, then you’re going…

It sounds like what they’re upset about is more that apparently the company didn’t provide the necessary resources to support the promotion, putting the front-line employees in an impossible position. That’s guaranteed to cause stress and failure, regardless of what industry you’re in.

Probably because it was such a critical flop that nobody cared about it after a week. I did ssee some headlines along the lines of “maybe they could have made a good series if they had blah blah blah” but hashing out why something sucks is less interesting than talking about something you mostly like but wish could…

Yeah, there’s no way this is an adaptation. Honestly I’m surprised Ayo is even in this movie.

Africa is not one country. It’s a very diverse continent. In certain African countries, you can be sentenced to long prison sentences or even death for being gay, which is horrific. On the other hand, South Africa was one of the first countries in the world to legalize gay marriage, doing so long before the US did.

Funny part is, I think the awkward kiss in Civil War was only shoehorned in there in an attempt to counterbalance all the “wink-wink” queerbaiting they were doing in that movie. The entire MCU Cap franchise so far has centered around his epic star-crossed bromance with Bucky. But here’s a quick kiss with a chick, so…

 Right, I think it’s very doubtful that this movie will be a faithful adaptation of a comic book storyline that was still in progress when the movie began filming. I think that they’ll probably borrow some elements from the first few issues, for worldbuilding purposes and such, but this is not going to be a direct…