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The amount of money a country does have needs to be equaled by a product of value, one of the most popular ones is gold. If you print extra money you inflate the economy as happend with german before WWI. If you do this on big scale the money wont be worth a dime.
True. One example of this is Macedonia's economy. The fact that they haven't made any arrests for forgery in their country is crazy, considering that forgery of their currency is one of the largest forms of crime in their country.
I havent read anything thing on that, cant imagine it happening so close(relativly). Though offcourse in Germany they dropped the current value and secretly made new ones in newyork, nobody knew about this so people wherent screaming to get rid of there money. When the money arrived they immidiately started using it, i recall people being able to change there cash in and gain a standard amoun of the new currency.
If it's so easy to copy a CD, how can they have those prices? We would have to analyze real numbers. Like for example How many legal copies of HL2 have been sold and how much money that means. Compare it with how much they spent making the game, etc.
Its not the compying of the cd, imagine this:
A poor african farmers sells his coffee beens to a merchander, for lets take 3 cents. The merchant wants to make profit above this so he sales it to a big dealer for 5 cents. The dealer sells his load to starbucks(amrican coffee store). Wich then transports it across the atlantic, adding a 2 dollars to the price. Then its being transported to the factory for the grinding. This adds up another 50 cents. The last line will be to the store wich after that will add up another bit to make profit.
This process is in dutch called: Toegevoegde waarde, or added value. With this example i only showed the real basics, because you get taxes, and other costs to it.
This is how a price is determined by the economy, though the governement can influence this by giving people profits on certain products.
Another way to control the price is the main distributer, lets take as a example EA. in the very first chain in the link above they add 10 bucks/pounds/euro's/yen to the product/game. Each of the other chains will still want there profit and add up there costs. Eventualy this will all come back to the costumers wich then downloads it.
This illegal downloading is called the black market, i believe we can apply the laffer curve to it(laffer=american economist from the reagan time). This curve shows the tax income compared to the height of it in % and the amount of people whom work white.
Yeah yeah, im rattling on, but im following a economical study at the moment.