Well I was going to do an a summary to tidy up. Operating off a phone only is trickier for me. Alright, progress. For the record Piezoe is smarter than I am, better writing, by a good margin. I need my laptop to reply, I'm at a nursing home out in the countryside most of the day.
This is the biggest problem w/ arguments the left tries to provide. They need to dig themselves deeper and deeper into a convoluted mess in order to explain their nonsense. They fall down a rabbit-hole of endless bullshit... which ends with gulags and concentration camps. "An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid." "Oh what a tangled web we weave when at first we start to deceive" and, of course... "Occam's Razor" But since the left wants free stuff (at best), and to further legalize/normalize their own dragooning (at worst), they necessarily bend over backwards to make it sound appealing. Fortunately, they are doomed to fail simply because "production must always precede predation". It's all rather straight-forward TBH.
In any functioning economy, production and distribution are intertwined. Who built the cart to put it before the horse? Production and distribution are part of a feedback loop. Distribution supports production, and production generates the wealth that can be further distributed. Ignoring this complexity can lead to overly simplistic conclusions about how economies should be managed.
@Tsing Tao My aunt just passed so I have a lot of arrangements. I have no reason to believe from what I have seen, that the suggested federal "price controls" are not to be targeted, addressing specific abuses without stifling the entire industry. The hyperbole is a Venezuela collapse, thats not going to happen I feel fully confident. I can list a rake of examples, Carrefour vs Pepsi and Lays and way more of specific examples of "greed-flation" and how it's been called out abroad. Right now in America, 80 percent I read of people believe that a part of the inflation was "greed-flation". Politicians are our representatives and they need to be seen to take up that matter. They are not however actually idiots, they will saber rattle for show and make some narrow changes. I know they look like idiots as the notion of taxing unrealized wealth is very fraught but again, it is more nuanced and won't in reality be a death blow, as ZH say about everything I know you don't like being out on hold but I'm sure you understand.
Sure, because the government is never known for overreach or abuse. Many states already have laws against this. Oh, well if you feel confident, that makes me feel better. This has absolutely nothing to do with price gouging and you have no evidence of your claim of "greed-flation". You know absolutely ZERO about why Pepsi was looking for a price increase, and 3 months later, the grocer and the manufacturer reached an agreement. You have no evidence at all this was "greed". First, I don't believe your number. Second, go find out how many people believe the Federal Reserve is a national system of parks. The country - the world - is full of idiots. Who cares what 80% of the people think if its bullshit. Try thinking for yourself, not following the herd. I don't know what any of this means, but the next time you point out how a republican politician is an idiot, I'll be sure and throw this paragraph back at you. Politicians ARE idiots.
From December 2018 to July 2019, at least six child migrants have died while being detained by the Trump administration.
Economies like ours should not really be "managed" when ours is based on a consumer/consumption economy. the fed govt can barely manage their own budget and operations and they are going to intelligently run the U.S. economy? Govt role in an economy is to create and oversee a system that is reliable and secure and functions and then get the fuck out of the way. It can manipulate its areas by passing spending bills or adjusting regulations but for the most part every from Apple down to me operate our businesses via state and federal laws and free from government interference and we dont give a fuck who sits in that chair. The extreme right and left wing dont get this and muck everything up...trump didnt create cheap gasoline and Biden didnt produce record gains in the stock market.