Same here. Some of this I knew but some not. Never bad to revisit while learning new things. I’m giving this channel a chance based on Belle and Beau. So far I like it.
Rarely do the workers get an extra slice of that increased corporate profit added into their paychecks. Corporations have been swimming in money from the 1st round of Lump tax cuts, and they have been spending it on physical renovation of their existing businesses and expanding to new areas; this is evident in the proliferation of freshly-built Dollar General stores (they used to look for cheap rent in an existing building), and buyer's clubs like BJ's adding a Deli Dept and a new fancy entranceway. Whenever I walk into an existing corporate business that has undergone or is in the midst of an upscale-oriented renovation and refurbishing, I make it a point to ask the employees if they got a raise from all of this extra corporate cash-flow, and they always laugh in my face sarcastically.
Trump's deregulations on the meat industry has caused massive recalls, but people fail to realize that the high amount of food waste drove up food prices.
Trump always goes for the solution that sounds good to the average person who knows very little and for short-term gains. He’s a fine example of someone who thinks they’re the smartest person in the room but who clearly isn’t. He uses threats and fear and lies to make people believe in him. It’s the Trump brand. A bunch of nothing.
@@JohnTorrington-ut4ev "unscheduled" food waste interesting term... never heard that before. ok, see, i don't call that food waste. that is a business technique of Inventory Destruction. it is a complete waste of resources. it is a product to these companies, not food. "food waste" implies it is the consumer that is wasting it. because it is the consumer that is purchasing the food as food to eat. words matter, but i understand you point now. ----- recalls happen because of bad regulation that endanger the consumer - there are also recalls corporations do that are seemingly unnecessary and the only reason is to keep artificially high prices with the excuse of a cull. if ^this is the kid of "food waste" you are talking about ... i wouldn't call it food waste at all. that is clear criminal intent to artificially raise or keep prices. - the other kind of business plan is the one that was used in the dairy market. discarding product instead of selling it at a lose. the tax incentives and bailouts were better for a full lose then a bottomed out market price.
@Andre-qo5ek you should look up the rate of recalls happening every week. This week there was even a carrot recall. I thought recalls were a really bad thing for business
Don't forget the third form of inflation - so-called "greedflation, wherein companies take advantage of inflationary periods to artificially increase their costs over that necessary to meet the inflationary period. This was a large driver of the inflation after COVID
I lived through the stagflation of the seventies. For a young working man at that time it was pretty horrible. Tariffs will cause inflation and deportation of millions of workers will reduce the GDP and cut demand. That will cost native born people their jobs as prices are going up. People may not of know it but that is what they unwittingly voted for.
@tw3235 _Of course we came!_ Belle said we'd learn something, attached the link, recommended the video, then recommended the channel... [Reminds me of the guy who refuses multiple rescue offers during a flood, drowns &, on arriving in Heaven, complains to God abt not getting saved when he had so much faith and God says, _"Heck, buddy, i sent your neighbors, the cops, a row boat, a speed boat... I even sent you a helicopter! What more did you want?"_ 😉]
another reason prices are "sticky" is a lack of competition. Monopolies don't have to compete with lower prices or cheaper goods. Government tariffs add a layer of protection to those high prices. There was a time when our American version of Capitalism tried to preserve this important check and balance to price gouging.
Unfortunately, this country is in especially bad shape to weather financial shocks. People are encouraged to spend every penny they have on crap they don’t need-and put it all on a high-interest-rate credit card. Most people have no savings at all as a result. It’s gonna be UGLY.
I think a lot about the time between the colonies winning the revolution, to the period where a Constitution was in place; that had to be crazy. And we have so much more that's reliant upon government money.... Wake me up in 4 years.
I have been telling everybody who will listen to boycott Christmas this year, and the next: no lights, no tree, no presents. Since pollsters claim that this election was all about the economy, let's show the owners of the country, the Wall Street investors and billionaires, what we think of them and the candidate the funded, all so they can get another tax cut. If tens of millions of Americans could actually somehow find the discipline to buy nothing that isn't an absolute necessity for the next year and a half or so, it would send a pretty strong message to the billionaires and the investor class that we're not fooling around and we don't like where they've taken us. Economic downturns always prompt reprisal against the incumbent political party; the sooner we help them bring the economy to its knees, the sooner we can take back Congress and stop this madness. Better to rip the Band-Aid off the economy all at once then to let them continue to bleed us drop by drop. Some of the money that we save by not spending on frivolous stuff can be donated to food pantries and soup kitchens; people less fortunate are going to need as much help as we can spare. Christmas has become a season of overtly crass commercialism which has nothing to do with a guy who purportedly tried to promote peaceful coexistence amongst all people. If Christmas vanished, I wouldn't miss it at all.
A constructive criticism: The last part of "Why should I know these concepts" should be at the beginning of the video so that a person who gets send this video immediately knows why they should continue watching and what topics are covered and their basic impacts. Otherwise great video and I will bookmark it to send to people who need a crash course in these subjects and their impacts.
Pretty sure the background is ai. Look at the text under the second arrow down on the left that looks like a computer tried to manifest the words shrinking prices but failing. Some of the text is real though. Also some other weirdness with the image
The points made relative to deflation might make sense in a competitive economy where corporate profits are minimized by the need to compete. But that is not what we have right now. We have high prices because of monopolies and corporate profits around 50%. So this impacts (layoffs, unemployment) should not kick in until corporate profits become considerably lower. These principles only apply to a normal capitalist system. We don't have a normal capitalist system.
That’s what I’ve been saying since the election. And warned about it before that when I learned of Donald’s genius economic plans. I was a small child in the 70s so I don’t remember the hard times my parents lived through, but I later learned because history should not be forgotten. Remember, history is just current events that aren’t current anymore. And we should all be aware of current events.
1:10 Demand-pull inflation sounds easy to create with artificial scarcity/obsolescence or by limiting risk and using historical data to determine how many likely customers you should have and only producing enough for that number. Also people willing to pay more seems easier to exploit everyday due to our cultural norms & luxurious tastes. 1:35 cost-push inflation sounds like another benefit for going green & to have more stuff made in America but also why globalization is necessary since we dont have every supply here & to avoid trade wars since they could cripple us. Also, because not being isolationist probably helps prevent another pearl harbor? 2:10 price stickiness sounds interesting since more places are doing digital menus & more minimum wages being raised, more unions being started etc. The only one that bothers me is consumer expectations, that seems less sticky and can be changed. 3:42 reduced consumer spending sounds alot like stock market gambling. We need Margot Robbie to explain this & the debt burden part. 4:40 can deflation spirals be avoided even if prices go down? Is it mostly the fault of the consumer delayed spending or the short term thinking of the businesses? Is the consumer really saving money or does a good amount go to helping the newly unemployed? 5:00 so when prices go up we're in a hurry to buy but when they go down we say maybe later? So when does the opposite happen? 6:20 how does reducing the budget deficit make people want to spend more money if prices are going down? 7:40 could stagflation be hidden by fudging with the unemployment data aka someone not looking for work after while no longer counted as unemployed? I always hear the simplest way to explain economics is supply and demand but after watching this I feel like the word supply could be less fuzzy if we used words that differentiate between acquisition & distribution. Goods can be naturally aquired or manufactured which has different costs but both help you aquire a good, then how you distribute it to your customers is a seperate costs altogether. I guess it might be better called supply & demand & distribution? This might at least make it easier to point out which exact cost went up first and then effected the others.
The policies of the Reagan administration were the reason stagflation hit the US. Interest rates went as high as 19%. Yes, 19%. People lost homes when the interest drive them out, into bankruptcy. Deflation was a main cause of the Great Depression, solved only by WW2 when military forces needed supplies. I am not a fan of inflation, but if kept to a manageable minimum, if wages go along with the increases (rarely do) then it's tolerable.
To consume or not to consume, keeping up with the Joneses has gotten out of hand, and the corporatios realized that. They know that keeping the supply trucks and trains at a slow pace increases the demand, thus creating the ability to decide how much capital gains they are willing to forgo in order to get the government they want that helps them gain more capital overall. In Greed We Trust.
Eventually wages will rise to meet them. Assuming the inflation was actually a system thing (high demand) and not monopolies/cartels seeing an opportunity to squeeze. The tough part in the middle is stagflation. The part that gets gross is the people who were so happy to outpace inflation with price hikes are the same types of people who will get squirmy about raising wages to put prices back in reach.
I wish some of these good comments would've listened before they voted for the orange 🍊 turd 💩🤡 and his republican goonies in House and Senate 😪 We tried to tell you all, and NO!...Orange turd is our savior 😂😂😂
I know it's not the point of the video, but the use of AI for the background is honestly quite gross and all the weird inconsistencies, spelling mistakes, etc. take away from the video
I've been paying about $2.70 to 2.80 per gallon for gas for months now, despite living in a fairly expensive New England state, yet people lie and complain about gas costing $4 to $5. They will say that gas was cheaper under Lumpy, but that's only because during the pandemic there was virtually no demand for gas, because no one was traveling and millions of people were quarantined, either laid off or working from home.
I notice that’s why we dint buy bacon at 10$ a pound or less. Know it’s affordable again but still dont buy it like we use too. So simple on many items to not buy if priced ridiculously. America doesn’t understand the power they have. We could drop the price of many things just by non purchase for a short time as a country. Two weeks of massive fall in sales gets attention quickly.
@johnanthony2545 , My wife and I already pledged to boycott Christmas this year and the next, and to buy absolutely nothing for the next 2 years that isn't absolutely necessary. Since Lump supporters supposedly told the pollsters that their vote was entirely about the economy, which Lump is bound and determined to crash for personal gain, we are going to withhold our spending from them and help them crash it sooner, so that Wall Street and the investor class can feel some economic pain for once. The only question is, do tens of millions of Americans have the discipline to follow suit?
@impartialpoints What are your sources? Everything sounds correct, but a bibliography would go a long way to idiot-proof the video from being labled as "fake news"
Uh, no. Prices do not go up because people are willing to pay more, they go up because someone decided to raise the price. Prices are a human decision, not an innate characteristic of how molecules are arranged or available. This is not to say that the decision to raise (or lower) prices are unaffected by resource availability - but it is a human decision as to how to respond to those changes in availablity.
Unless people are willing to go without things when prices go up, then they are indicating they are willing to pay those prices. It's commonly referred to as "what the market will bear." Businesses seeking higher profits tend to set prices by what the market will bear.
It's a human decision to raise a price but it only stays up if people are willing to pay it. If enough people can't afford it or think the price isn't worth it the price will go down or the product will stop being supplied.
@@alindasue And every single one of those price changes is the result of a human making a decision. There is no such thing as 'an invisible hand'. The human economy is the product of resource availability and human decisions - with prices determined by humans (often informed by resource availability, but never controlled by it - control of prices is always a human decision).
@@shellym79 Which, again, is the result of human decisions. If sales drop a human decision is often - but not always - made to lower prices. If costs go down sometimes the humans doing the selling sometimes lower prices - but not always. Humans with a supply of scarce goods often decide to sell at a higher price. In each and every case it is a human that decides the price. There are statistical likelihoods and historical patterns that strongly suggest what those decisions can be expected to be - but prices are still the result of humans making decisions. Not some sort of hand-waving market magic.
Is the purchase not also a human decision? If the person didn't purchase it at that amount, it would not be the price. Something's monetary value is determined by what somebody is willing to pay. If I put a rusted fork on ebay for a million dollars, it's just the asking price unless somebody buys it. The real price is only determined once somebody else agrees. I understand what you're trying to get at, but this doesn't actually get you there.
Thanks for the information link Belle.
was sent by Belle--great explanations
Beau/Belle of the fifth column sent me here. Thank you for this
I also posted it on Facebook!
@ excellent!
Same here. Some of this I knew but some not. Never bad to revisit while learning new things. I’m giving this channel a chance based on Belle and Beau. So far I like it.
Same! I have subbed already because I think of them as a good resource for finding additional resources.
Me too!
In other words, company greed keeps prices from dropping.
It surely doesn't help.
@@impartialpointsis it fair to say greed/human choices comes more into play with wages than with prices?
I was coming here to say that.
It's capitalism! All this has to do with a system of capitalism.
Rarely do the workers get an extra slice of that increased corporate profit added into their paychecks. Corporations have been swimming in money from the 1st round of Lump tax cuts, and they have been spending it on physical renovation of their existing businesses and expanding to new areas; this is evident in the proliferation of freshly-built Dollar General stores (they used to look for cheap rent in an existing building), and buyer's clubs like BJ's adding a Deli Dept and a new fancy entranceway. Whenever I walk into an existing corporate business that has undergone or is in the midst of an upscale-oriented renovation and refurbishing, I make it a point to ask the employees if they got a raise from all of this extra corporate cash-flow, and they always laugh in my face sarcastically.
Trump's deregulations on the meat industry has caused massive recalls, but people fail to realize that the high amount of food waste drove up food prices.
Trump always goes for the solution that sounds good to the average person who knows very little and for short-term gains. He’s a fine example of someone who thinks they’re the smartest person in the room but who clearly isn’t. He uses threats and fear and lies to make people believe in him. It’s the Trump brand. A bunch of nothing.
food waste does not drive up prices.
@Andre-qo5ek unscheduled food waste via recalls creates scarcity, you know the rest
@@JohnTorrington-ut4ev "unscheduled" food waste interesting term... never heard that before.
ok, see, i don't call that food waste. that is a business technique of Inventory Destruction. it is a complete waste of resources. it is a product to these companies, not food.
"food waste" implies it is the consumer that is wasting it. because it is the consumer that is purchasing the food as food to eat.
words matter, but i understand you point now.
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recalls happen because of bad regulation that endanger the consumer
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there are also recalls corporations do that are seemingly unnecessary and the only reason is to keep artificially high prices with the excuse of a cull.
if ^this is the kid of "food waste" you are talking about ... i wouldn't call it food waste at all. that is clear criminal intent to artificially raise or keep prices.
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the other kind of business plan is the one that was used in the dairy market. discarding product instead of selling it at a lose. the tax incentives and bailouts were better for a full lose then a bottomed out market price.
@Andre-qo5ek you should look up the rate of recalls happening every week. This week there was even a carrot recall. I thought recalls were a really bad thing for business
Don't forget the third form of inflation - so-called "greedflation, wherein companies take advantage of inflationary periods to artificially increase their costs over that necessary to meet the inflationary period. This was a large driver of the inflation after COVID
Exxon net profit margin
2019 5.4%
2020 -12.5
2021 8.3%
2022 14%
2023 10.7%
Like pre-raising prices in anticipation of tariffs?
That’s called price gouging.
Inflation, deflation, and stagflation are reliant on external influences on pricing, not arbitrary pricing changes.
@ price gouging results in inflation
I lived through the stagflation of the seventies. For a young working man at that time it was pretty horrible. Tariffs will cause inflation and deportation of millions of workers will reduce the GDP and cut demand. That will cost native born people their jobs as prices are going up. People may not of know it but that is what they unwittingly voted for.
Belle sent me here
Same :)
Me too!!
I thought I was the only one coming over. lol
I came from Belle of the Ranch too. ❤
@tw3235
_Of course we came!_ Belle said we'd learn something, attached the link, recommended the video, then recommended the channel...
[Reminds me of the guy who refuses multiple rescue offers during a flood, drowns &, on arriving in Heaven, complains to God abt not getting saved when he had so much faith and God says, _"Heck, buddy, i sent your neighbors, the cops, a row boat, a speed boat... I even sent you a helicopter! What more did you want?"_ 😉]
Sent over from Belle and Beau. This video and your video on the 14th amendment were excellent- very informative
Awesome! Thank you!
another reason prices are "sticky" is a lack of competition. Monopolies don't have to compete with lower prices or cheaper goods. Government tariffs add a layer of protection to those high prices. There was a time when our American version of Capitalism tried to preserve this important check and balance to price gouging.
Unfortunately, this country is in especially bad shape to weather financial shocks. People are encouraged to spend every penny they have on crap they don’t need-and put it all on a high-interest-rate credit card. Most people have no savings at all as a result. It’s gonna be UGLY.
I think a lot about the time between the colonies winning the revolution, to the period where a Constitution was in place; that had to be crazy.
And we have so much more that's reliant upon government money....
Wake me up in 4 years.
I have been telling everybody who will listen to boycott Christmas this year, and the next: no lights, no tree, no presents. Since pollsters claim that this election was all about the economy, let's show the owners of the country, the Wall Street investors and billionaires, what we think of them and the candidate the funded, all so they can get another tax cut. If tens of millions of Americans could actually somehow find the discipline to buy nothing that isn't an absolute necessity for the next year and a half or so, it would send a pretty strong message to the billionaires and the investor class that we're not fooling around and we don't like where they've taken us. Economic downturns always prompt reprisal against the incumbent political party; the sooner we help them bring the economy to its knees, the sooner we can take back Congress and stop this madness. Better to rip the Band-Aid off the economy all at once then to let them continue to bleed us drop by drop. Some of the money that we save by not spending on frivolous stuff can be donated to food pantries and soup kitchens; people less fortunate are going to need as much help as we can spare. Christmas has become a season of overtly crass commercialism which has nothing to do with a guy who purportedly tried to promote peaceful coexistence amongst all people. If Christmas vanished, I wouldn't miss it at all.
@@plantyfanAs bad as our revolution was, I keep thinking about the French Revolution.
An absolute living nightmare.
@@Oldleftiehere Grab your knitting needles.
Beau of the Fifth column says hi. 😉
A constructive criticism:
The last part of "Why should I know these concepts" should be at the beginning of the video so that a person who gets send this video immediately knows why they should continue watching and what topics are covered and their basic impacts.
Otherwise great video and I will bookmark it to send to people who need a crash course in these subjects and their impacts.
Thanks. That's actually constructive. Appreciate it.
FYI, your beautiful background has a typo. It says "stagfation" instead of "stagflation". Great video though!
Pretty sure the background is ai. Look at the text under the second arrow down on the left that looks like a computer tried to manifest the words shrinking prices but failing. Some of the text is real though. Also some other weirdness with the image
Thank you for this breakdown, got to proof a little. It was "stagfation" on the grassy knoll.
The points made relative to deflation might make sense in a competitive economy where corporate profits are minimized by the need to compete. But that is not what we have right now. We have high prices because of monopolies and corporate profits around 50%. So this impacts (layoffs, unemployment) should not kick in until corporate profits become considerably lower. These principles only apply to a normal capitalist system. We don't have a normal capitalist system.
Belle of the Ranch sent me, so I subscribed automatically. Great video!
We are SO headed for stagflation…. 😩
That’s what I’ve been saying since the election. And warned about it before that when I learned of Donald’s genius economic plans. I was a small child in the 70s so I don’t remember the hard times my parents lived through, but I later learned because history should not be forgotten. Remember, history is just current events that aren’t current anymore. And we should all be aware of current events.
Thank you.
Thank you for an illuminating episode.
Another great explainer. Keep up the good work!
Much appreciated!
1:10 Demand-pull inflation sounds easy to create with artificial scarcity/obsolescence or by limiting risk and using historical data to determine how many likely customers you should have and only producing enough for that number. Also people willing to pay more seems easier to exploit everyday due to our cultural norms & luxurious tastes.
1:35 cost-push inflation sounds like another benefit for going green & to have more stuff made in America but also why globalization is necessary since we dont have every supply here & to avoid trade wars since they could cripple us. Also, because not being isolationist probably helps prevent another pearl harbor?
2:10 price stickiness sounds interesting since more places are doing digital menus & more minimum wages being raised, more unions being started etc. The only one that bothers me is consumer expectations, that seems less sticky and can be changed.
3:42 reduced consumer spending sounds alot like stock market gambling. We need Margot Robbie to explain this & the debt burden part.
4:40 can deflation spirals be avoided even if prices go down? Is it mostly the fault of the consumer delayed spending or the short term thinking of the businesses? Is the consumer really saving money or does a good amount go to helping the newly unemployed?
5:00 so when prices go up we're in a hurry to buy but when they go down we say maybe later? So when does the opposite happen?
6:20 how does reducing the budget deficit make people want to spend more money if prices are going down?
7:40 could stagflation be hidden by fudging with the unemployment data aka someone not looking for work after while no longer counted as unemployed?
I always hear the simplest way to explain economics is supply and demand but after watching this I feel like the word supply could be less fuzzy if we used words that differentiate between acquisition & distribution. Goods can be naturally aquired or manufactured which has different costs but both help you aquire a good, then how you distribute it to your customers is a seperate costs altogether. I guess it might be better called supply & demand & distribution? This might at least make it easier to point out which exact cost went up first and then effected the others.
Good stuff!
The policies of the Reagan administration were the reason stagflation hit the US. Interest rates went as high as 19%. Yes, 19%. People lost homes when the interest drive them out, into bankruptcy.
Deflation was a main cause of the Great Depression, solved only by WW2 when military forces needed supplies.
I am not a fan of inflation, but if kept to a manageable minimum, if wages go along with the increases (rarely do) then it's tolerable.
To consume or not to consume, keeping up with the Joneses has gotten out of hand, and the corporatios realized that. They know that keeping the supply trucks and trains at a slow pace increases the demand, thus creating the ability to decide how much capital gains they are willing to forgo in order to get the government they want that helps them gain more capital overall. In Greed We Trust.
If everyone stops buying stuff because nobody has enough money, then how can prices afford to remain high?
Eventually wages will rise to meet them. Assuming the inflation was actually a system thing (high demand) and not monopolies/cartels seeing an opportunity to squeeze.
The tough part in the middle is stagflation.
The part that gets gross is the people who were so happy to outpace inflation with price hikes are the same types of people who will get squirmy about raising wages to put prices back in reach.
I wish some of these good comments would've listened before they voted for the orange 🍊 turd 💩🤡 and his republican goonies in House and Senate 😪
We tried to tell you all, and NO!...Orange turd is our savior 😂😂😂
How about the role of money printing, e.g., quantitative easing?
In algorithm we trust
Belle sent me here.,
Never could understand how jacking up prices when there is a shortage makes products more plentiful. Oh wait it doesn't its Greed.
@beauofthefifthcolumn and Belle of the Ranch brought me here.
The thing to remember is that prices will not go back down until *YOU PERSONALLY* lose your job... so you better hope it doesn't happen.
Enjoy your content, for the algorithm.
I know it's not the point of the video, but the use of AI for the background is honestly quite gross and all the weird inconsistencies, spelling mistakes, etc. take away from the video
You missed chokepoint “capitalism.” Combined monopoly and monopsony, to include monopsony of labor, as key contributors to stagflation.
Exxon net profit margin
2019 5.4%
2020 -12.5
2021 8.3%
2022 14%
2023 10.7%
And that’s just Exxon. Theres plenty of other petroleum companies that made bank while the rest of us saw the buying power of our wages dwindle.
Nobody notices if prices come down, everybody notices when they go up.
I've been paying about $2.70 to 2.80 per gallon for gas for months now, despite living in a fairly expensive New England state, yet people lie and complain about gas costing $4 to $5. They will say that gas was cheaper under Lumpy, but that's only because during the pandemic there was virtually no demand for gas, because no one was traveling and millions of people were quarantined, either laid off or working from home.
I notice that’s why we dint buy bacon at 10$ a pound or less. Know it’s affordable again but still dont buy it like we use too. So simple on many items to not buy if priced ridiculously. America doesn’t understand the power they have. We could drop the price of many things just by non purchase for a short time as a country. Two weeks of massive fall in sales gets attention quickly.
@johnanthony2545 , My wife and I already pledged to boycott Christmas this year and the next, and to buy absolutely nothing for the next 2 years that isn't absolutely necessary. Since Lump supporters supposedly told the pollsters that their vote was entirely about the economy, which Lump is bound and determined to crash for personal gain, we are going to withhold our spending from them and help them crash it sooner, so that Wall Street and the investor class can feel some economic pain for once. The only question is, do tens of millions of Americans have the discipline to follow suit?
Stagflation is spelled incorrectly on the artwork!
Worker co-ops need to be normalized.
@impartialpoints What are your sources? Everything sounds correct, but a bibliography would go a long way to idiot-proof the video from being labled as "fake news"
Uh, no. Prices do not go up because people are willing to pay more, they go up because someone decided to raise the price. Prices are a human decision, not an innate characteristic of how molecules are arranged or available. This is not to say that the decision to raise (or lower) prices are unaffected by resource availability - but it is a human decision as to how to respond to those changes in availablity.
Unless people are willing to go without things when prices go up, then they are indicating they are willing to pay those prices. It's commonly referred to as "what the market will bear." Businesses seeking higher profits tend to set prices by what the market will bear.
It's a human decision to raise a price but it only stays up if people are willing to pay it. If enough people can't afford it or think the price isn't worth it the price will go down or the product will stop being supplied.
@@alindasue And every single one of those price changes is the result of a human making a decision. There is no such thing as 'an invisible hand'. The human economy is the product of resource availability and human decisions - with prices determined by humans (often informed by resource availability, but never controlled by it - control of prices is always a human decision).
@@shellym79 Which, again, is the result of human decisions. If sales drop a human decision is often - but not always - made to lower prices. If costs go down sometimes the humans doing the selling sometimes lower prices - but not always. Humans with a supply of scarce goods often decide to sell at a higher price. In each and every case it is a human that decides the price. There are statistical likelihoods and historical patterns that strongly suggest what those decisions can be expected to be - but prices are still the result of humans making decisions. Not some sort of hand-waving market magic.
Is the purchase not also a human decision? If the person didn't purchase it at that amount, it would not be the price. Something's monetary value is determined by what somebody is willing to pay. If I put a rusted fork on ebay for a million dollars, it's just the asking price unless somebody buys it. The real price is only determined once somebody else agrees.
I understand what you're trying to get at, but this doesn't actually get you there.
I wish everyone in the world was forced to watch this video.
🍋🟩🤠
Greed