RE: The Post-Technological World.
March 18, 2019 at 11:36 am
(This post was last modified: March 18, 2019 at 11:45 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Economic viability is greed by another name. Case in point, nearly a billion people don't have enough to eat at any given time...because it's not economically viable to sell them food. Not because they have no money, mind you - or even so much that it would cost more, but because of the lost opportunity to shift stock to those areas where people would pay less.
If I could sell a lb of produce for $1 in location a, or 50c in location b, I have all of my produce sitting for sale at location a, even if it only cost me 5c to make the lb of produce. Most of it won't sell, and it's not feasible (when it's even possible) to shift the stock to the second location in the event that it doesn't sell at the first.
(I'm not commenting on how greed is uniformly bad, I just think it's useful to be upfront about what circumstances we find ourselves in because of it - I think it's a mix, personally. )
If I could sell a lb of produce for $1 in location a, or 50c in location b, I have all of my produce sitting for sale at location a, even if it only cost me 5c to make the lb of produce. Most of it won't sell, and it's not feasible (when it's even possible) to shift the stock to the second location in the event that it doesn't sell at the first.
(I'm not commenting on how greed is uniformly bad, I just think it's useful to be upfront about what circumstances we find ourselves in because of it - I think it's a mix, personally. )
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