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It's not driven by capitalism (any more than any transaction ever has been), it's driven by consumerism. Twinkies would not be manufactured or sold if people di
by brashrat 11y ago
It's not driven by capitalism (any more than any transaction ever has been), it's driven by consumerism. Twinkies would not be manufactured or sold if people didn't like gobbling them up at the available price. Stop blaming corporations (which are just made up of people) and simply blame your fellow citizens for being a bunch of idiots.
- mordocai 11y agoIt is driven by both capitalism and consumerism.
- brenschluss 11y ago> Stop blaming corporations (which are just made up of people) The market is an emergent phenomenon. A market is indeed made up of corporations which is made up of people, but this does not mean that "just made up of people" is an adequate answer.
- brashrat 11y agoNo way, you are just wrong. Markets existed well before capitalism and well before corporations, and they exist where neither of those things exist.
- brenschluss 11y agoYou're right, but your point doesn't negate my point that dissecting an emergent phenomenon to 'simply' be the sum of its parts is a comprehensible way to understand the phenomenon.