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mircea_popescu: the police don't get live rounds, they just carry the empty pistols around.
mircea_popescu: in romania you'd take about a week to find someone with a working firearm.
mircea_popescu: i didn't pay a cent, but that doesn't mean ny is free.
mircea_popescu: i mean sure, while i was in ny i had free car service and two doods with shotguns
mircea_popescu: this somehow comes out like it's 0.35% more here than there.
mircea_popescu: then you imagine stuff here is book price, which it isn't.
mircea_popescu: you probably get some deals over there and you take that as a basis. which isn't a basis.
mircea_popescu: i think what happens here is that you're comparing things wrongly in the following sense :
mircea_popescu: i dunno, whatever. you can actually demand a specific make, but i never cared.
mircea_popescu: and waits for me and carries my bags and whatever the fuck else.
mircea_popescu: i can keep three on call and not even notice it particularly.
mircea_popescu: i happen top not care what cars cost mostly because i hire a driver with his car and gas for ~100 bux per day or some shit
mircea_popescu: as in, you couldn't replicate what counts as a "normal" diet here in the us without 10k a month
mircea_popescu: romania is cheaper for everything that matters, pretty much.
mircea_popescu: you've successfuly railroaded this discussion into perhaps the most irrelevant possible corner.
mircea_popescu: i've been there, i've been here, itdoesn't figure like you think.
mircea_popescu: next he's gonna tell me that a limited series lamborghini costs the same everywhere ;/
mircea_popescu: because you'd rather pay 1.23 dollars for a pound of excellent cheese
mircea_popescu: i told you about a dozen, but somehow it doesn't stick.
mircea_popescu: there hasn't been a kidnapping in romania since i dunno, years ago.
mircea_popescu: listen, there's plenty of rich people. everybody knows.
mircea_popescu: it's funny, cause i'm over here and you're over there.
mircea_popescu: better off move to somewhere where the idiots are still kept at a low roar by the traditional means of stepping on head.
mircea_popescu: romanian guy making ~500 usd a month is going out and fixing the park benches in his spare time with his own tools.
mircea_popescu: let me put it in the following perspective : american guy making 1300 usd a month (mostly govt aid, he doesn't work for it) is sitting around listening to angry music and glaring at passerbys because "he's been cheated".
mircea_popescu: tiberiusiv the problem with the us is that it contains ~200mn unskilled, hungry, entitled doods.
mircea_popescu: or else all the ones i know dropping it since 2005 or so are silly.
mircea_popescu: on the other hand you impugn imaginary problems with romania on the grounds that it's not all level
mircea_popescu: on one hand you're telling me about these elusive cali estates (0.001% of us)
mircea_popescu: if you think a gated off island is a great way to live i guess we see things too differently to discuss this productively.
mircea_popescu: tiberiusiv yes, they're cheaper inasmuch as they're made in jersey, and thus only german by name.
mircea_popescu: you're approaching the problems of infrastructure as if you're a salaried peon.
mircea_popescu: there's vat, but you apply it on lower basis and get much better stuff for your money.
mircea_popescu: to get a good car in the us you have to ship it from yurp
mircea_popescu: tiberiusiv ya well being stupid and rich is dangerous everywhere.
mircea_popescu: dub im paying something like 3.9% if you count it all.
mircea_popescu: but by now sealed deal. so probably the top 5 or top 10 stand to gain nicely.
mircea_popescu: back when they were just bleeding market share it seemed like it's temporary
mircea_popescu: that'll have to be verified in practice before i take it too seriously.
mircea_popescu: tiberiusiv in fairness, that's prolly because they're not much used so they don't opverrun their limits
mircea_popescu: shame on Namworld trolling us with finance talk in this chan