[Scoundreller]

Also helps that pizzas themselves are dirt cheap to make. Anything that makes them expensive is chargeable. Continuous production is easy and cheap, so doubling your volume by adding delivery is achievable with the same kitchen.

[twoheadedboy]

"When it gets down to it — talking trade balances here — once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here — once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel — once the Invisible Hand has taken away all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity — y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music, movies, microcode (software), high-speed pizza delivery"

[toomuchtodo]

Snow Crash never goes out of style.

[mritchie712]

...and fucking delicious