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Wow - the meer thought of Bruce putting into practice anything written by Robert Greene sends shivers up my spine.

I'm trying to believe this is irony, as it seems to be, in the genre of Dilbert.  http://www.dilbert.com/strips] [url]http://www.dilbert.com/strips[/url]
But I've also heard that Americans don't do/understand Irony, so maybe not.

Oh yes, and every other country and its people are perfect.

Sue, that wasn't directed at you.

To be fair, this sort of war-games theory was and remains very fashionable in both business and economic circles. Many libertarians are deep into this stuff and just about every over caffeinated silicon valley male who has come into business post internet goes through a stage of trying to think like an ancient Japanese warlord.

Strip away the sometimes almost semi mystical woo and there is also lots of good sense and fun there too.

Some one referred to Walmart in this thread or another, but it got me thinking. You know at Walmart that they do rollbacks. Well if you pay close attention to these prices you will notice they are actually rollups. It's just the sign that has a price listed as the old price that was rolled back. That old price is actually more than the price that was being paid before. On items I buy regularly I always notice this. Many people that see "Rollback" automatically think of a bargain. That's kinda what iStock is doing with these price increases then offering the discount packages so they basically aren't losing that money they lost before the price increase. And of course telling us we'd be making more because they increased the price isn't true because they are basically making what the did before but will start paying us less making us think we are actually making more $$ rather than a lower % because of the price increase. I think this is backfiring on their part but it really makes me wonder if that was what they were trying to do.