Re: Inflation
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 2:49 am
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Exactly. If babies want to exercise their personal choice to wear diapers that can burst into flames, what business is that of the government?
I guess captial and startup costs shouldn't be issue for a left wing labor party member in the UK. There seems to be no shortage of Chinese spies willing to invest.Chap wrote: ↑Sat Jan 15, 2022 10:30 amExactly. If babies want to exercise their personal choice to wear diapers that can burst into flames, what business is that of the government?
Maybe we could come to a compromise, though. How would you be about diapers that fail the flammability test being allowed to be sold, but with a prominent notice saying:
This is a FREEDOM DIAPER! It's cheaper, but it may catch fire. You get to choose!!
Would that be OK, Ajax?
To which the response is:Chap wrote: ↑Sat Jan 15, 2022 10:30 amExactly. If babies want to exercise their personal choice to wear diapers that can burst into flames, what business is that of the government?
Maybe we could come to a compromise, though. How would you be about diapers that fail the flammability test being allowed to be sold, but with a prominent notice saying:
This is a FREEDOM DIAPER! It's cheaper, but it may catch fire. You get to choose!!
Would that be OK, Ajax?
Andajax18 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 15, 2022 1:08 pmI guess captial and startup costs shouldn't be issue for a left wing labor party member in the UK. There seems to be no shortage of Chinese spies willing to invest.
Labour Party Accepted £700,000 From Alleged Chinese Communist Spy: Report
Christine Lee, the alleged Chinese Communist spy, reportedly donated over £700,000 to the left-wing Labour Party in Britain as a part of a “political interference” campaign orchestrated by Beijing.
Divert much?ajax18 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 15, 2022 1:12 pmHow far we've fallen from real English men.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT5Q2osNADw
This is our land, our Wessex, our England! And we'll murder and heathen bastard who tries to take it!
Now can we get back to diapers?Lee also received an award from Theresa May when she was [Conservative] prime minister, for her work on a project promoting good relations between the Chinese and British communities in the UK, and was a VIP guest when David Cameron hosted President Xi Jinping in London. Her connections with the Chinese embassy were widely known.
I think price controls and anti-price gouging laws should apply especially during times of national crisis. I mean we already do this with stores try charging four times the price for a generator whenever a hurricane hits.Physics Guy wrote: ↑Sat Jan 15, 2022 3:15 pmI’m by no means dedicated to laissez-faire but let’s just get our principles clear.
The big guys could sell diapers for less than they do, but I can’t start a diaper business undercutting the big guys because without their established distribution systems I can’t actually supply the diapers at lower cost than they charge. Is that it?
If so, then this just sounds like basic capitalism. The person who owns an anvil can make horseshoes for ten cents each, but sells them for fifty cents because that’s what people will pay. I can’t undercut them because I don’t have an anvil. Should we compel the anvil owners to sell horseshoes for 15 cents? Or is the opportunity for lucrative price-gouging just their reward for investing in an anvil?
I’m not necessarily saying that either smiths or corporations should just be allowed to price-gouge if they can. I’m just trying to see if there’s any difference of principle here.
Physics Guy wrote: ↑Sat Jan 15, 2022 3:15 pmIf so, then this just sounds like basic capitalism. The person who owns an anvil can make horseshoes for ten cents each, but sells them for fifty cents because that’s what people will pay. I can’t undercut them because I don’t have an anvil.
Should we compel the anvil owners to sell horseshoes for 15 cents? Or is the opportunity for lucrative price-gouging just their reward for investing in an anvil?
I’m not necessarily saying that either smiths or corporations should just be allowed to price-gouge if they can. I’m just trying to see if there’s any difference of principle here. The “capital” in capitalism is precisely about using expensive assets that most people can’t afford to lower your marginal production costs, and then getting rich by charging whatever the market will bear. So if we’re complaining about oligopolistic price-gouging, are we complaining about a bug in capitalism, or about its basic feature?
I think you'd put the nation into a perpetual crisis if it furthered your woke communist agenda.K Graham wrote: ↑Sat Jan 15, 2022 3:29 pmI think price controls and anti-price gouging laws should apply especially during times of national crisis. I mean we already do this with stores try charging four times the price for a generator whenever a hurricane hits.Physics Guy wrote: ↑Sat Jan 15, 2022 3:15 pmI’m by no means dedicated to laissez-faire but let’s just get our principles clear.
The big guys could sell diapers for less than they do, but I can’t start a diaper business undercutting the big guys because without their established distribution systems I can’t actually supply the diapers at lower cost than they charge. Is that it?
If so, then this just sounds like basic capitalism. The person who owns an anvil can make horseshoes for ten cents each, but sells them for fifty cents because that’s what people will pay. I can’t undercut them because I don’t have an anvil. Should we compel the anvil owners to sell horseshoes for 15 cents? Or is the opportunity for lucrative price-gouging just their reward for investing in an anvil?
I’m not necessarily saying that either smiths or corporations should just be allowed to price-gouge if they can. I’m just trying to see if there’s any difference of principle here.
But given that you're an established moron, economic illiterate and fake "doctor," I doubt your idiotic opinions carry any weight here.