Civil Servants

**Husar** · 12-12-2009, 22:48

Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit

Like Kukri said, I ain't paying them.

So you don't buy any of the products advertised there either?

**Evil_Maniac From Mars** · 12-12-2009, 22:54

Originally Posted by Husar

So you don't buy any of the products advertised there either?

If the company has a large bureaucracy and their prices go up, he won't have to buy the product. He always has to pay the government.

**Husar** · 12-12-2009, 23:39

Originally Posted by Evil_Maniac From Mars

If the company has a large bureaucracy and their prices go up, he won't have to buy the product. He always has to pay the government.

So you mean if he thinks Coca cola pays too much for their advertisement, he can switch to Pepsi because they uhm, advertise there, too?
I was just saying he probably pays for them in some way or another, of course it might be possible to live in a remote mountain and grow your own cattle and vegetables to save on the advertising costs so you only pay taxes anymore but I doubt many people really care enough.

**Evil_Maniac From Mars** · 12-13-2009, 00:09

Originally Posted by Husar

So you mean if he thinks Coca cola pays too much for their advertisement, he can switch to Pepsi because they uhm, advertise there, too?

Or he can buy generic supermarket cola at less than half of the unit price of Coca Cola. Or just not buy cola altogether. That's the thing - it's his choice.

**Furunculus** · 12-13-2009, 01:20

Originally Posted by Husar

So you mean if he thinks Coca cola pays too much for their advertisement, he can switch to Pepsi because they uhm, advertise there, too?

yes you can. i don't watch TV, i don't have a TV, i don't pay for a TV license.

we had a plymouth brethren kid when i was in school, he didn't watch TV and we thought he was a freak, now it doesn't seem so much of a big deal.

[edit] off course i don't think TV is evil, but the point stands [/edit]

**Husar** · 12-13-2009, 06:25

Originally Posted by Furunculus

yes you can. i don't watch TV, i don't have a TV, i don't pay for a TV license.

we had a plymouth brethren kid when i was in school, he didn't watch TV and we thought he was a freak, now it doesn't seem so much of a big deal.

[edit] off course i don't think TV is evil, but the point stands [/edit]

I don't have TV either, but Coca cola isn't the only thing they advertise there so are you trying to say that Crazed Rabbit goes to the supermarket with a list of things they advertise in sports games where he thinks the athletes are overpaid and consciously avoids buying anything on that list so that he does not support their high wages? I'd like to hear that from himself.

**Evil_Maniac From Mars** · 12-13-2009, 06:33

Originally Posted by Husar

I don't have TV either, but Coca cola isn't the only thing they advertise there so are you trying to say that Crazed Rabbit goes to the supermarket with a list of things they advertise in sports games where he thinks the athletes are overpaid and consciously avoids buying anything on that list so that he does not support their high wages? I'd like to hear that from himself.

No, but if he wanted to he could. Perhaps he likes Coca Cola. If he doesn't like it, he doesn't have to buy it. Our point is entirely that one is mandatory and one is not.

**Husar** · 12-13-2009, 07:10

Originally Posted by Evil_Maniac From Mars

No, but if he wanted to he could. Perhaps he likes Coca Cola. If he doesn't like it, he doesn't have to buy it. Our point is entirely that one is mandatory and one is not.

And my point was entirely that, mandatory or not, he pays for it anyway.