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You are a disappoint my fellow liberal.

Holocost revisionism is wrong full stop.

Dynamic pricing is allowed for hotels and airlines.
How come I am not allowed to sell popular concert or match tickets for as much as someone is willing to pay?

Yeah that seems to be the way things are going. Lots of things that normal people could afford as a regular or semi regular part of life, are becoming luxuries. Things at a day to day level, things like pubs and resturants are moving put of normal people's weekly/monthly budgets. Less regular events like concerts, festivals and sports events are subject to dynamic pricing which naturally moves them away from normal people, and then big items like houses are moving away quickly.

It Doesn't apply to everyone though so there is still a market for things. My retired mother has far more disposable income than my 2 income household. So there is money out there, it's just moving towards older people on old style pensions and without costs like housing and children.

Dynamic pricing makes sure they're getting as much as possible from people who really want to go to a concert or whatever event. They're not worried about pricing people out because they're getting as much as possible from the people that can pay.

I imagine the long term impact will be customer behaviour and habit change. I don't think about resturants anymore because it just not in the budget. In the past we might go to a restaurant for a small celebration like a birthday or new job. I wouldn't consider a resturant for a small celebration or Sunday dinner anymore. And we've given up going to concerts and sports events. I just leave that to older people and people with the disposable income.

Addiction is not a disease or an illness even though it's being continually reported as such in the media.

You can't get addicted to something if you never use it.Sure some people have more of a tendency to get addicted but that is not the same as a being an illness, an illness is something you have zero control over. Look at Ciara Mageean she's done everything right in life healthwise and looks likely won't make it to her 40th birthday, thats an actual disease completely unavoidable for her no matter what good she did.

Someone who has addiction issues can simply avoid being addicted by having will power and not partaking, difficult alright but not impossible and not something like a real disease or illness.

Yes you're right. Some sports events are relatively cheap, particularly if you can get cheap transport there and back.

I suppose I'm thinking the entire cost if you make an evening of it with mates. A couple of pints and if you're out if the house for a while, then some food on top. But yes, some sports events with cheap transport and a sandwich are still affordable.

I suppose this is where the behaviour comes in. I've mostly stopped going to events like that because the money is needed elsewhere in the budget. And once you're out of the habit, you're less likely to go to any of the events.

I think you're mistaking their refusal to join in the d…self identification that doesn't align with biological reality with hatred - if they don't accept trans women as real women that doesn't mean they hate them.

I'm aware of that but its not an illness , by describing its an illness actually does more harm than good as it implies a person's helpless but you can give up an addiction you cant give up cancer or heart disease or a brain hemmoraghe

I'm not saying it's not difficult just you are helpless like you are with a disease.

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  except unfortunatly a phone is pretty much essential now so you can't exactly avoid that vice.

Drugs aren't exacly something every kid in primary school has.

Its very simple - don't begin something and you can never get addicted. Curiosity killed the cat and all that..

It depends on definitions I guess but take heart or circulatory system related issues which may stem from a sedentary lifestyle etc. these are preventable and treatable yet most wouldn't place them in same vein as addiction.

With heavy addiction, withdrawal symptoms can be fatal in some cases so IMO it's not as easy as just using free will. Add to it often being associated with mental health issues.

As with many things it's not always black and white, there's a difference between giving up smoking and a debilitating opioid addiction.

I disagree. It was about racism along with bread and circuses for the American middle classes. It's caused untold damage to generations of people and nothing worthwhile was achieved.

More bigotry, more cruelty and more suffering would not have helped anyone except for wealthy insiders. America imprisons more of its population than any other country by some margin. Private prisons simply should not exist.

Of course, it's the socioeconomic factors. When the chance of rehabilitation is higher then the sentence is should be less severe. It's one thing to sell coke and weed to your upper middle class mates, completely different thing to sell crack and meth at the street corner armed with an illegally obtained gun.