you can model the tax on the supply or the demand. in most simple models the outcome is the same

I’m not sure what source other than the bible you propose to answer a question on Christain doctrine?

every dollar you raise, the fewer customers you get. the point is that you should want to raise the price whenever the relative drop in customers is less than the relative increase in price to maximise profits (where marginal cost is marginal benefit :) )

some injustices are structural

actually history is just our collective understanding of the past, so if it changes, history changes

right, except sometimes it’s easier to impose conditions on certain countries than others. for example the US was able to get the previous Indian administration to sign a treaty ceding partial control of their arsenal to them, on threat of sanctions (if I recall correctly). as much as the US might want to do something like that with China, it wouldn’t be anywhere near as easy to pull off.

this is just an example, I’m not attaching moral value to what occurred/occurs

can’t you just buy a cheaper USB 3.0 speed cable anyway? or is this a hardware limitation that Apple have put in the port of the phone?

look at mr big spoon here

any effectively decidable system. that’s not quite the same, and doesn’t strictly apply to AI commands

you’d like all other communities to be echo chambers?