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Your metaphor is wrong. Say you're a car dealer. Hundreds of poor people show up who need a car just to get by. You offer them nothing but the sticker price. So
by jbob2000 8y ago
Your metaphor is wrong. Say you're a car dealer. Hundreds of poor people show up who need a car just to get by. You offer them nothing but the sticker price. Sorry, we gotta make money too. A rich guy shows up, who could probably purchase the dealership, and you offer him 90% off the sticker price of whatever cars he wants. You won't make any money off of him, but maybe he'll tell his friends and they will come to you for a car.
- c3534l 8y agoThat metaphor doesn't work because we're both the one selling the car and the hundreds of poor people. The rich guy shows up and he demands that all the poor people chip in to buy him a new car or he won't even buy a car to begin with, he'll go to the next dealership and demand the poor people chip in there. Everyone would be better off if the poor people of every call dealership got together and agreed that rich people should pay the same price as poor people, not less.
- manfredo 8y agoWere there any businesses looking into setting up shop in NYC or Crystal City that were poised to bring anywhere near the amount of wealth as Amazon? I think a more accurate metaphor is that you're a car dealer, and you're regularly selling Kias and Toyotas at sticker price, but you're having trouble selling a Mercedes S Class. A wealthy person - who can clearly afford sticker price - offers 90% of the sticker price and points out that all the dealerships in the area want to sell these cars and plenty are willing to knock double digits off MSRP. Is it wrong to sell the car at a discount?