Most of these products are vanity items that we should not even bother producing. For my part, I still purchase Gatorade in powder form. 8 gallons for $10 save both money and plastic.
I heard something related to this recently. The development of synthetic rubber meant we did not need to control regions with rubber plantation. This was mentioned in association with World War II. Another interesting point discussed was that in order to send secure communication by wire you had to control the land the wire traversed to prevent disruption of the communication. The invention of wireless communication meant that you only had to control the terminals of the communication.
Assuming there is a single source, and that rival country is completely determined to stop you from getting any of it, instead of selling it to make money as normal?
More commonly they'd just put a tariff in place, which is likely cheaper to pay for than a war and occupation.
I provided context for this, WW2. The Allies were cut off from the natural rubber supply of Southeast Asia at the beginning of the war. You can read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_rubber
The licensing of DVDs versus Streams seems to be out of wack. How is it that Netflix can license so many more movies to distribute through their DVD service than they are able to license to distribute through their Stream service?
Because discs aren’t licensed, they’re bought and you can do what the fuck you want with your property. There have already been multiple comments referencing this, the First Sale Doctrine.
