NoPrivacy wrote:
I detest Airbnb.
Did you know that your reviews are public? Anyone with or without an Airbnb account can view where you stayed, when and what the host wrote to you?
It's creepy. Do hotels do that? No.
I think it's a huge privacy issue and now that I know about it, I'll never use airbnb again. I value my privacy too!
Ok don't use it. But I certainly don't hope you want to impose your choices on the rest of us.
Your strawman is poorly constructed, but conceptually I agree that Liberals are a walking contradiction in (at least) two ways:
1. Liberals seem to hate authority--unless its the government. Their hate for authority is not reserved for corporations (which are evil in Liberal's eyes), but just about any power figure or organization (except Apple, apparently).
2. Liberals think that they're open minded when, in fact, they're more narrow minded than conservatives. The thought police at american universities these days are a great case in point. So is abortion. The % of Republicans that are pro choice is way, way higher than the % of Democrats that are pro life.
The Republicans are walking contradictions, too. They want liberty, but just not on social issues. They want to cut spending, but not defense.
That's why the Green and Libertarian parties are the only ones that have some semblance of consistency. Problem is that they're a bunch of extremist wack jobs.
Huh??? wrote:
800 dude wrote:That's why supply curves are, you know, CURVES.
So no incentives exist to have more inventory to sell because of "curves" (in all caps)? Try to keep up, ehh?
The ideas is that in times of emergency supplies are disrupted so the market can't respond as it normally would. A price increase thusly ensures that goods are only available to those whom value it enough.
If you've ever considered buying 6 cases of water before a minor snowstorm, you are exactly the kind of person who necessitates price 'gouging.'
Consider it an unpreparedness tax. It's the ONLY way to fairly allocate scarce resources.
HHH helicopter wrote:
Huh??? wrote:So no incentives exist to have more inventory to sell because of "curves" (in all caps)? Try to keep up, ehh?
The ideas is that in times of emergency supplies are disrupted so the market can't respond as it normally would. A price increase thusly ensures that goods are only available to those whom value it enough.
If you've ever considered buying 6 cases of water before a minor snowstorm, you are exactly the kind of person who necessitates price 'gouging.'
Consider it an unpreparedness tax. It's the ONLY way to fairly allocate scarce resources.
In addition to what the above poster just said, higher prices in times of great need incentivize more suppliers to get in the market. If you heard that bottled water was going for thirty bucks a case in the next state over you might consider loading up your SUV with as much bottled water as you can fit and taking a road trip.
Markets wrote:
HHH helicopter wrote:The ideas is that in times of emergency supplies are disrupted so the market can't respond as it normally would. A price increase thusly ensures that goods are only available to those whom value it enough.
If you've ever considered buying 6 cases of water before a minor snowstorm, you are exactly the kind of person who necessitates price 'gouging.'
Consider it an unpreparedness tax. It's the ONLY way to fairly allocate scarce resources.
In addition to what the above poster just said, higher prices in times of great need incentivize more suppliers to get in the market. If you heard that bottled water was going for thirty bucks a case in the next state over you might consider loading up your SUV with as much bottled water as you can fit and taking a road trip.
... gentlemen, it remains that there is incentive for the store to have more inventory, which I believe was the point. Not disagreeing with you that higher prices could lead to the results you have described in your two examples but as I am sure you know there are many many variables at work in such a situation.
Yes. And Bernie is still our man
No. They don't bother to think about the underlying principles because they have been programmed by the media, their teachers, and their peers to think of anything that improves their lives as liberal and anything bad as conservative.
still... wrote:
Markets wrote:In addition to what the above poster just said, higher prices in times of great need incentivize more suppliers to get in the market. If you heard that bottled water was going for thirty bucks a case in the next state over you might consider loading up your SUV with as much bottled water as you can fit and taking a road trip.
... gentlemen, it remains that there is incentive for the store to have more inventory, which I believe was the point. Not disagreeing with you that higher prices could lead to the results you have described in your two examples but as I am sure you know there are many many variables at work in such a situation.
Absolutely, however in times of disaster, etc, the fundamental problem is that the store cannot increase its supply to match demand. There are exterior forces at place like flooding or martial law (only if they take all our guns).