> There is no point at which people would be doing to both do the labor and others would still buy the resulting product at an increased price. Exactly! Which

> There is no point at which people would be doing to both do the labor and others would still buy the resulting product at an increased price. Exactly! Which means the good or service shouldn't be produced. > You are dealing in a hypothetical where there aren't market forces at work. Erm, no. This is what market forces are. Market forces decide what is and what is not produced, via exactly this mechanism. This is the very essence of what a market is.