there is nobody out there who is fine paying more for the output than the inputs cost on the market Those companies making canned soup have not much influence on the price of the tomatoes, the metal of the tins,... and the final production price is for every canned-soup producing company practically the same(we call this kind of thing price inelasticity)... and so begins an ever enduring battle between companies, and so the only reason that company will cease is that it had less money to begin with, and the companies that had enough money will survive. So: the only thing that the market enforces: rich get richer, poor get poorer. You better be born rich.
problem with your reasoning : the market does not work. over 90% of the market is owned by supermarkets, and they can dictate the market when there is a slight overproduction. They force you to sign contracts with ridiculously small margins, or else you're out of business.
Then go vertical integration. When you are a small player, you don't have that option.
Got any real-world examples of cartels that were built without help of government (so no railway, phone, gas, water...), where there actually is no competition? I gave one. the factory which produces the cans of soup is in the village of my parents, and they are totally in the stranglehold of aldi.
Besides, with time a cartel becomes less and less innovative/efficient, for lack of competition, so it gets easier. what can you innovative about cans of soup ?
ALL information should be available to everyone. Problem with a scheme such as this ID-card is that it empowers some institutions (like say banks or corporations) to have access to the data, but the man in the street hasn't got the same information available.
But anybody can just choose to underbid the cartel Most of the time they can't, because such a cartel usually has such a large power over their suppliers, just because they are their only customer. imagine you make canned tomato soup. cartel X wants 1 million cans of soup for 50 cents each, while you can make em for 48 cents. Another customer knocks on your door for those same cans, but they only want 50000 cans. do you think the second customer will pay 50?
sure, but i don't believe in capitalism either. the ground-rules of capitalism are impossible to achieve (total information to the customer, enough competition,... that sort of thing)
what about: price agreements between the biggest players in the market... THAT garantees the largest profit. wake up, capitalism is fundamentally broken.
If Wal*Mart serves me badly, against what I consider a profitable exchange, I stop shopping there. Eventually, we see stores fail -- even big ones, often. If Burger King serves me badly, against what I consider a profitable exchange, I stop eating there. Eventually, we see restaurants fail -- even big ones, often. that doesn't work, the people in charge are the same in all those chains.
but an anarcho-capitalist Small detail : in the US, the capitalists control the government, as well as the sh^H^Hpeople; So, what is this anarcho-capitalism because it has obviously nothing to do with capitalism?
It is plausible that skin cancer rates are up because people spend more time in the outdoors. Uh-uh, so there's no-one sitting in front of all those TV's, Eh ?
*food is the ONLY product that I purchase which actually gets absorbed into my body. asbestos ? My point is that EVERY thing you have around you is part of the chemical balance of the world. Everything eventually ends up in the food-chain. The can of soda you bought... where does it go ? burned? into a landfill ? Landfills are not completely sealed off...
that everything we humans do is natural,... Problem is : we are destroying so much biodiversity that we will kill ourselves in the process. Most(>99%) people don't know how complex nature is. insects outweigh us 1000 to one. 1-celled organisms outweigh insects 1000 to one. Those bacteria are necessary to maintain the chemical balance of the water, the air and the soil. Do you know what happens when bacteria get fscked up?: we die of poisoning.
We are talking about a 2 foot sea level rise when all ice melts,we talk about a rise of about 70 meters, that's not even counting expansion of the water due to warmer weather; maximum levels were about 600 meters above current sea-level.
nor do we know the full list of inputs that drive it nor their relative importance. We are putting energy(actually, releasing stored energy) into the atmosphere at an incredible rate; I wonder how this could have NO effect on the planet.
Frankly I will buy GM's story about there being little demand for the EV. they sold a lot of EV1's.... 800 is more than some makes sell in the US; and they where only available in 1 state!
It's not that hard to build an electric car, but the hard part is finding a suitably lightweight vehicle that isn't a horrendous shitbox. What the fsck are you talking about? how is that different than any other car ?
... those are deathtraps. so, what you're saying is : other cars are not good enough either,... Do they still sell them ?
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This is certainly not renewable.
So: the only thing that the market enforces: rich get richer, poor get poorer. You better be born rich.
problem with your reasoning : the market does not work. over 90% of the market is owned by supermarkets, and they can dictate the market when there is a slight overproduction. They force you to sign contracts with ridiculously small margins, or else you're out of business.
ALL information should be available to everyone. Problem with a scheme such as this ID-card is that it empowers some institutions (like say banks or corporations) to have access to the data, but the man in the street hasn't got the same information available.
my point was this: we are mass-produced poisons
you mean those guys who serve a tiny portion of the market? You should read up on the conditions a capitalistic system needs to work properly.
sure, but i don't believe in capitalism either. the ground-rules of capitalism are impossible to achieve (total information to the customer, enough competition,... that sort of thing)
what about: price agreements between the biggest players in the market ... THAT garantees the largest profit. wake up, capitalism is fundamentally broken.
My point is that EVERY thing you have around you is part of the chemical balance of the world. Everything eventually ends up in the food-chain. The can of soda you bought
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anything to stop the people from acting responsibly?
May I point out that the global-warming theory was just as accepted outside the scientific community 10 years ago as was Galileo with his theory ?
... those are deathtraps. so, what you're saying is : other cars are not good enough either,