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> Have you ever shopped around for lower pricing? It's one thing to shop for a lower price, it's quite another to notice someone's desperate and take advantage
by tablespoon 6y ago
> Have you ever shopped around for lower pricing?
It's one thing to shop for a lower price, it's quite another to notice someone's desperate and take advantage.
> The collective population of the world does this when we chose to purchase things for cheaper prices made in countries with more lax environmental and labor laws.
An a lot of people object to that, too, and they often lack the power to make any other decision.
- bluGill 6y agoWhen you shop around for price you are shopping around for someone to exploit with the lower price. There is no difference, zero sum, if you get a product for less, somewhere in the world someone got less money.
- lupire 6y agoThe difference is plausible deniability, I guess.
- astrange 6y agoThe economy isn't zero sum (from a capitalist PoV) and reducing someone's profit margin isn't exploiting them (from a Marxist PoV). It's important to avoid thinking partial equilibrium effects are the actual effects of something.
- bluGill 6y agoThis isn't about the total ecconomy, this is a single transaction.