Why do we have to have movie theaters at all? Why not just get everything online? Why have movies in the first place?  Why does our society give you the electric power to read my questions?

Anti-trust activity is communist? On what planet? It's an asshole move, sure, but hardly commie

I am and have always been calling for competition to provide for the equilibrium in price conducive to fulfilling the consumer's best interest.  Look around.  Are consumers' best inetersts fulfilled?  Are their basic needs met?  Why not?  Because, Yell, we are living in a world where corprations and governments collude to endorce anti-trust, unethical behavior for the interest of the producers - a defacto global communist state is where we are living, The Yell.  Wake up?

The equilibrium in price in the new economic paradigm would be attained and maintained by your neighbor's decision to accept your offer of 2 heads of your garden's lettuce for 3 of his apples or his other neighbor's offer of 3 oranges for two heads of his other neighbor's lettuce.  This price equilibrium would be determined by your decision to trade your lawn-mower tractor for Jake's RV for the duration of your family vacation, because he can use your tractor to mow people's lawns in their neighborhood in exchange for their goods or services: other services: maybe Donny down the road (who has a little paint-producing operation) will have his teenage kid come by and paint a fence that needs painting, or Jason and Billy ( Karen's two boys) will come by and dig an irrigation ditch, or maybe we'll have them dig holes to plant apple trees.  He hasn't decided yet.  Maybe he'll have Mr. Lawson, the math teacher come by and tutor his kids because he himself knows he is too impatient to be a teacher.  Or maybe he'll have Dr. Smith come by and take a look at his knee which has been bothering him.  In exchange for your lawn-mower tractor, he can choose among the various goods and services the neighborhood's households produce.  Everyone has the opportunity to benefit by this diversity of goods and services available to them. This form of 'neighborhood barter capitalism' cannot be taxed by government, cannot be competed with by big corporations, and is the inevitable outcome of our current paradigm if greedy, unethical, anti-trust behavior by the elite continues.  There would be no tanks in the streets, no war, no revolution; just quiet, incremental shifts towards such an economic paradigm as more and more people find they are simply unable to afford an RV or lawnmower tractor, cannot afford to live in cities anymore and buy food at grocery stores, and have to move out to the sticks and grow their own food; an inevitable result of the sort of collapses we can expect from time to time under the current economic paradigm, which, people like you, The Yell, seem to WANT to continue.  Why do you want the current economic paradigm to continue, The Yell?  Is it because you profit by it so well?

In other threads you have argued that taxation is inescapable, and that big government is necessary to confront big corporations.

"Why is this?  Why can't they make money selling movie tickets?"

Maybe they can. But they do what will make them the most money.

Irrational people like you are more likely to go to the threatre if the ticket prices are low. Irrational people like you are more likely to buy overpriced concessions if low ticket prices get you there to begin with.

It is this way because of the psychology of stupid people. Theatres make more money with this model. Smart people like me bring in 6-packs and fast-food in their girlfriends' purses.

It's win-win. Smart people get cheap tickets and dumb people pick up the tab. Isn't this the biological evolution you support?

You're making a big deal out of something which is the result of free markets and human stupidity. It supports absolutely nothing of the nonsense you're spamming about here. That you think it does is just sad.

"The equilibrium in price in the new economic paradigm would be attained and maintained by your neighbor's decision to accept your offer of 2 heads of your garden's lettuce for 3 of his apples or his other neighbor's offer of 3 oranges for two heads of his other neighbor's lettuce.  This price equilibrium would be determined by your decision to trade your lawn-mower tractor for Jake's RV for the duration of your family vacation...."

Blah blah blah blah, huge wall of text, all nonsense like this. You're proposing an economic barter model (which we rejected because currency is mega useful) in which the price of lettuce is determined by a lawn-mower trade?

That's ridiculous. Additionally, implied in your example is a scarcity of goods we don't have now. Everyone who tries half hard for half their life can have all the lettuce and apples they want. They can invest in an RV when the time's right if they make good choices. Your example is predicated upon a presumption of poverty--a move backwards--and complete ignorance of the hassle and injustice present in a barter economy.

Why spam? Nobody can remain ignorant of why currency is awesome and barter economies suck. You have the internet. This is just more trolling.

you could wear a guayabera shirt and sneak packs of candy inyour waistband

All I can say is that it's lucky Americans are such fat fat ass fat fat asses.

Also it seems the cinemas need to unionise and go on strike for a better cut.

Do production companies limit how much theatres can charge per ticket? This seems doubtful, since ticket prices vary by theatre. If this is not the case, production companies aren't determining their "cut" at all, just their free per ticket for admission to their movie.

I found the article pretty interesting,  theaters can charge what ever they want.  It works on percentages.  First week the studio gets pretty much the whole cut, as each week passes - the percentage changes giving @10% of a cut per week to the theater.  Using this model, you can see how different movie houses can charge differnt amounts for tickets but still need to fall back on concessions as a main staple of income.

On a side note, by having to research this - this is the first bit of useful information I have gleaned from a Xeno thread

"this is the first bit of useful information I have gleaned from a Xeno thread"

You really need more imagination.

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In other threads you have argued that taxation is inescapable, and that big government is necessary to confront big corporations.
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It is, in the short term.