Loretta Napoleoni: The intricate economics of terrorism

Agreed.

But businessmen get crazy people to blow themselves up by running the systems that deftly guide crazy virgin-seekers.

See the excellent talk by Philip Zimbardo about “The Lucifer Effect”

The bad apples are planted and nurtured by minds at the top, that design the system direct it and turn the apples bad.
Organized crime of very high order

Do see the video

Being crazy is one thing, being twisted evil quite another. Which one is worse, anybody will tell you.

I sense that she smokes. She is short of breath…

I think if Dan Gilbert, Dan Dennett and Loretta Napoleoni sit together on stage and discuss mass psychology, behavior of masses from an evolutionary perspective, and rogue economics from the vast experience of Loretta, between the three of them they will be able to explain every single large-scale crime and global terrorism.
Evolutionary psychology and Mass psychology explain how the public is fooled into believeing that terrorism is by fanatics. It is by businessmen willing to shed blood.

@EveryHumanBeing I am not sure i understand your argument on how suicide bombings is “extremely cost effective” and cheap. If by cost effective, you mean the likely hood of kiling one person is higher then i might agree,however there is no way i’d accept the cheap argument. these idiots are not just lining up t blow theselves up irrespective of what the media may portray.they are intricately selected, profiled, trained and then in some case left in a dormant cell for years b4 some bcome active.

@newexperiment Yeah, I shouldn’t of tried to explain it all.
I should of just went with my first line of, ‘My buying power got ate up when minimum wage went up’

But at least you know what I mean. Yeah there’s a multitude of reasons that affect the price of goods. Like you said, printing more dollars.. basically you have more dollars competing for the same amount of goods.

That’s some terrible math and logic skills you got there. even 3$ more per hour for 10 employees (30$/hr) means the price of the average purchase, assuming 30 transactions a minute. would have to go up 1$ to compensate.

Assume the average customer pays 20$ worth, the price would go up to 21$.

That’s if we make all the assumptions in YOUR favor.. more realistically: decrease the employees to 6, increase the min wage by only 1$ per hour assume 40 transactions per hour..

@MRSketch09
It is pretty horrible, sense there is already a lot of unemployment in the US, because of this recession. So now you have older more experienced people competing with college kids. OF course the older person will get the job.
So basically this is why I say its a punishment.

I hate this text limit…. sorry for posting four times.

@MRSketch09
SO the business had to cover that cost. The cost was passed along in the price of goods. Which cannot be helped because the business is being forced to pay their employees more, even if its a job thats worth 7$ an hr, and they can’t pull that money out of there ass like the federal government can do.

And this is like a web, you can start following it back. Plus to top it all off, since I get paid more by the hour, I get taxed more by the hour as well.

@jackdent1982 you statement has got to be the most bizarre comment on here.

@newexperiment
You do realize the minimum wage is more of a punishment than a help right?
If you want me to explain I will.. but if you don’t care.. well that’s fine to.

My point is that regardless of the level of government regulation, the logic of capitalism itself entails that corporations must do whatever they can to maximise profit or fail. Profit maximisation without government regulation entails an awful lot of human suffering. It might indeed be more economically efficient, but material wealth is only one small factor in realising human well being.

Hence why I believe whilst capitalism should be maintained, the worst excesses of it should be constrained

@John1Rawls
“forces even nice business owners to pay as little as humanly possible to the worker”

I think payroll taxes are a big issue. For instance, an employee gets paid minimum wage (7$hr), but its really costing the company 10 dollars or 11 dollars to keep that employee there.(US) Those taxes that the federal/local government take, is literally taking money out of the employees pocket.

Of course, its just one piece of the puzzle. I’m still researching & Learning.

I live in Ardoyne, yea i agree with you mate, im not thinking about the man driving the taxi, yea he is paying his 50 quid a week to drive there tho.., the banker that owns the taxi firm are directly funding republican programs,, they make millions per annum and constantly capitolizing, in turn funding the drug shipments and terrorism, i believe the real Ira were Great Rebels or simply humans fighting for their rights, There is none left, i think they where sold out by gangsters,,