On 8/1/2013 11:38 AM, Shay wrote:
> "Patrick Elliott"  wrote in message news:51faa419$1@news.povray.org...
>> Uh, no.. Rising unemployment and income equality is the direct
>> result of the wolves deciding the the rabbits where not enough,
>> and they should be allowed to eat "everything".
>
> We agree more than you think. Low-cost/no-cost goods (or labor) lead to
> a loss of economic equilibrium. This is common to both our stories.
>
> Some people in very unfortunate situations must undersell their goods or
> labor. Remedies for this situation are not the subject of this thread.
>
Actually, my point is, when the wolves are the ones making the 
decisions, they are the ones that end up "over pricing" the goods, and 
"under pricing" the labor. This is always one thing that irritates the 
hell out of my about the people in the US that insisting on using the 
term "libertarian". They always seem to think you "Fix things" by either 
intentionally buying the more expensive goods, and thus taking money 
away from the bad employers, and "choosing the higher paid jobs", 
instead of just what ever job you can actually get. What they flat out 
refuse to acknowledge is that, more often than not, the current economic 
model functions on four principles:

1. Charge for everything, even if you could give it away as part of the 
deal.
2. Pay as little as possible to the people making it all work.
3. Pay the top people, at minimum, 50x what the guy on the bottom makes.
4. Stare in incomprehension, when people tell you they can't afford your 
"cheap" goods.

Almost nothing is ever priced what it actually costs to make it, without 
adding on a "huge" margin, which gets funneled, almost entirely, to the 
people who do the least bloody actual work. The few places that either 
don't, or are not as blatant about it, either a) get called fools, or 
b), yes, temporarily, for as long as needed to kill their business, 
maybe undercut by enough that they can't afford to compete. Only.. half 
of their costs come from someone they are not in competition to, 
overcharging for goods, which only the people undercutting everyone else 
can afford to pay for.

As I said.. the wolves get to each everything. And then sit around 
howling, when, all of the sudden, their fat asses find themselves 
missing a meal or two, because part of the ecosystem collapses.

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