I’m no friend to big business but please explain to me without using Keynesian economic theory on why low prices are a bad thing
When Walmarts enter a new area, they routinely set their prices impossibly low and sell products at a loss for the first few years, until all of the local non-franchise stores are unable to compete and driven out of business. Then, once ever other store in the town is dead, Walmart jacks up their prices.
Walmart can afford to do this because they are a global franchise and have a cushion of billions of dollars, but local stores owned by individuals can never afford to drop prices that low and sell at a loss.
Walmart is also a 328 billion dollar company which rakes in billions from federal subsidies, tax breaks and grants, yet they pay their employees pitiful wage slave pittances, so these employees end up having to go on food stamps and other protective benefits
So it’s a double dip, Walmart is basically the 21st century’s East India Company, it can only exist due to mercantilism and nepotism and would collapse anywhere else. Fuck Walmart
A child with an allowance of $10 a week who spent it on lemons and sugar: Lemonade for sale, a dollar a cup.
My niece, backed by me, an adult who can afford to buy a soda stream and a bunch of flavor packets and all without really feeling the cost, setting up a lemonade stand: Lemonade for sale, ten cents a cup.
A child who hasn’t sold any lemonade because his neighbor undersold him: Aww nuts, I didn’t make my allowance back and I spent all my money, I can’t even afford to make more lemonade *shuts down his lemonade stand*
My niece, seeing the neighbor boy go inside: Lemonade, $1.10 a cup.
Barnes & Noble did this to most of the bookstore industry. Thing is, this model is and was always unsustainable, and Barnes & Noble is now in trouble. They’re not in trouble because of Amazon, contrary to popular belief. They’re in trouble because by bankrupting all of the other booksellers, the publishers were also bankrupted, and they destroyed the diversity of the publishing market. Publishing is getting more diverse now because small presses, vanity presses, and self-publishing are gaining traction via the internet, but publishing was a brutal wasteland through the ‘90s and ‘00s.
Monopolies fuck themselves in the end, but not before they’ve fucked everyone else, and that’s why they’re a problem.
I want the winners of Masterchef Junior to judge Masterchef. Like, HUMILIATE THE POMPOUS LOSER ADULTS, MY CHILDREN. DO IT. MAKE THEM FEEL STUPID. Adults deserve to feel like that once in a while
The kids criticism would probably be a lot more valuble as most adult judges judge on things other than “does this taste good” which is why cooking was invented i think
Yes My Meal Looks Like Hot Shit. But Does It Taste Good? Yes? Then Eat It In The Dark, Shitstick
also kids would say it looks like roadkill as a compliment.
Do u think sci-fi writers realize how massively Bad destroying a planet is. Like, an Entire Planet, Exploded. Cool visual! Explosions. As we typically think of them are not possible in a vacuum but that’s besides the point. The Point Is uh that’s a whole planet? That is a Whole planet. If it can sustain life this is Infinitely Worse. I’m the kind of dumb ass that will think about it too hard and I just
That’s. More death than any previous extinction event, anything the human race has endured, all at once. Just, no more life. That’s any recorded history kept on the planet itself, destroyed. No writing no fossil record nothing. An Entire Planet, Gone. Like??? Y'all realize how huge blowing up a planet is, right. That’s A Planet. If this was earth you’d have more than like 30 seconds of going “damn that sucks :/” before moving on with the plot but if it isn’t earth it’s just shock value huh. Okay
The last part reads like I’m an alien personally offended by this trope and yknow what. Perhaps
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