Photon-hunter wrote: snowboarder wrote:
I love when all the Europeans complain about high prices and high taxes
and keep electing the moronic socialist governments and paying for the useless
morons in Brussels sitting and doing nothing... except raising taxes.
Just shut up and enjoy your free health care.
I hate to chime in to politicise the thread. A working class father with a seriously sick child stands a chance here in Europe (at least for now, things unfortunately are changing rapidly). Even if he has to pay 4000$ for the RX1. Geez, talk about priorities in life man....
As I understand it, it is more complicated than that. The rich have enough money, of course, the poor are often covered in some way. The problem is middle-class self-employed people, or middle-class people in small companies without health plans. The coverage fees are extremely high, so many people simply don\'t have insurance. One serious illness is enough to force you to take out a mortgage or dig into your savings. This is what the social security net gives us in Europe, and what Obama is trying to do in the States.
Anyway, we should probably try to converge on the RX1 again Sony appears to be gouging Europe and Australia for some reason, effectively subsidising the prices in the States. It makes me very unhappy, and reminds me that Sony is not a photographic company, but a electronics conglomerate with different units and different strategies in different parts of the world. I hope the day never comes when Sony catches up with Canon and Nikon, simply because I don\'t think it would be good for the consumers.
Dec 16, 2012 at 05:31 AM
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Sony appears to be gouging Europe and Australia for some reason, effectively subsidising the prices in the States. It makes me very unhappy, and reminds me that Sony is not a photographic company, but a electronics conglomerate with different units and different strategies in different parts of the world. I hope the day never comes when Sony catches up with Canon and Nikon, simply because I don\'t think it would be good for the consumers.