I'm surprised there's not an inflation thread yet
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lol
Whatever dude. Get your ass out of the basement and go take out the trash for your mom. Don't make her ask again.
It's a real shame for her that your dad split and isn't around to smack the shit out of your lazy, worthless ass.
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Inflation gives employers an excuse to raise their prices without admitting prices will rise no matter what. Because of inflation, they can pretend that they had to. Inflation is also great for lowering employee pay without confronting an angry employee with a deliberate decision by management to cut pay. Inflation is good for employers, but not for employees. Employees cannot understand what employers are doing, which makes life easy for sellers to gouge customers and employees.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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You've said the same wrong thing three times in a row now.
You're an idiot.
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If SECOND knew anything about economics he'd know we have fascism, not capitalism.
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Quote:I'm not being a knee-jerk critic, BTW. Under CAPITALISM different producers or service providers have to compete for markets, as well as employees competing for jobs. Under CAPITALISM it's not the case where "they" can charge anything they feel like.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
If SECOND knew anything about economics he'd know we have fascism, not capitalism.
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But the essential ingredient of capitalism that's missing from SECOND's view is competition. That means that what SECOND poses as capitalism is, at best, monopolism. But if monopolies and oligopolies/cartels have taken the reins of government and direct policy to their benefit, which they have, then you can arguably say you have fascism.
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And who even knows who really owns anything anymore.
Remember when Coca Cola just sold Coca Cola?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Coca-Cola_brands
There is no competition out there anymore. Not any real competition.
Pepsi or Coke aren't going to undercut the other because they don't have to and it would only hurt their take when the opposite side did the same. For all I fuckin' know somebody owns both of them. Wouldn't be surprised to hear that if it ever came out.
Capitalism was great. We're way past that now though. I guess you could argue that what we've got now up until one company owns everything (including the world governments) was the natural conclusion to Capitalism all along.
I mean, this IS a Firefly site and that's a main part of the backstory that most people probably forgot or just overlooked in the first place.
All that's left for them to do now is disarm the world population, completely emasculate men and then feminize them, and give handouts to everybody until everyone is completely dependent on the Government teat and unable to wipe their own asses. Then just watch them slowly take everything away from you until everyone but those at the tippy top of the pyramid have 8 billion slaves. Yanno... until they decide to delete everyone with non-essential jobs by getting them to take non-essential jabs or just releasing the solution outright.
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Quote:Will you ever understand that capitalists do NOT run their businesses, in any country, to benefit their customers? (They don't run businesses to create high-paying jobs, either, but that is another story.)
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
If SECOND knew anything about economics he'd know we have fascism, not capitalism.
Businesses raise their prices at every opportunity because that is what is best for business, not what is best for customers. That is why some countries have laws against businesses price gouging customers before and after hurricanes.
That is why governments inspect, for example, slaughterhouses. Without inspections, businesses willingly sell diseased, dirty, germy meat, which would never happen if businesses actually cared about what is best for the customer.
Businesses form monopolies and duopolies and oligopolies because that is best for businesses, not what is best for customers. That is why governments in many countries have Antitrust Laws in order to stop this behavior by businesses.
https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/guide-antitru
st-laws/antitrust-laws
"If SECOND knew anything about economics he'd know we have fascism, not capitalism."
None of the bad business practices, including inflating prices whenever possible, has anything to do with fascism. Cheating the customer, but being very careful to NOT make cheating blatantly obvious to the customer, is a typical business practice in capitalism in all countries. The less-than-obvious cheating is unconnected to fascism. It is just greedy and dishonest business people trying to make more money than they deserve. They will smile, tell you they are being truthful and giving you a good deal, then they cheat you out of a little extra money, raising their prices by 10%. It is inflation in action.
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
If SECOND knew anything about economics he'd know we have fascism, not capitalism.
SECOND: Will you ever understand that capitalists do NOT run their businesses, in any country, to benefit their customers? (They don't run businesses to create high-paying jobs, either, but that is another story.)
OMFG, YOURE SO STUPID!!!
CLEARLY you haven't taken a single course or read a single book on "capitalism", much less economics.
One critical aspect of capitalism, and "the thing" that makes it palatable to it's proponents and advocates, is the presence of COMPETITION. I posted this before. I even underlined it! But you still somehow managed to miss it!
The theory is that if you have multiple producers and multiple customers and multiple employees, each acting in their own SELF INYEREST, it will reach an ideal equilibrium through the magic of COMPETITION.
Adam Smith's 'Invisible Hand", hello? Clearly you haven't heard/read about it? Even tho you pretend to know about it?
The problem is that "capitalism" is an unstable state. It inevitably evolves to something that is NOT CAPITALISM.
Many books have been written about this evolution. You clearly haven't read them, either.
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Quote:Is it because of "something that is NOT CAPITALISM" that the economy does not always run smoothly? (The U.S. economy experienced serious recessions beginning in 1973, 1981, 1990, 2001, and 2007. Actually, the U.S. economy has been having recessions for hundreds of years.) List of 48 recessions in the United States
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
The problem is that "capitalism" is an unstable state. It inevitably evolves to something that is NOT CAPITALISM.
Many books have been written about this evolution. You clearly haven't read them, either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_United_States
Signym, you might also want to look at A Short History of Prices, Inflation since the Founding of the U.S.
https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/regional-economist/second-quar
ter-2017/a-short-history-of-prices-inflation-since-founding-of-us
Signym, inflation is not "something that is NOT CAPITALISM". Inflation and Deflation have always been part of capitalism.
Signym, you appreciate the virtues of a market economy and the power of the invisible hand. But the invisible hand isn’t always our friend. The individual pursuit of self-interest can lead to counterproductive behavior. Sometimes the individual pursuit of one’s own interest, instead of promoting the interests of society as a whole, can actually make society worse off. There is even a name for it: Market Failure. Failure is part of capitalism. It is not "something that is NOT CAPITALISM".
https://www.econlib.org/library/Topics/College/marketfailures.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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