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To the contrary. If Helium is as rare, precious and limited as we're led to believe, the price caps would be removed and helium prices would skyrocket to what t
by parineum 3y ago
To the contrary. If Helium is as rare, precious and limited as we're led to believe, the price caps would be removed and helium prices would skyrocket to what the market would bear. I guarantee hospitals are going to pay more for helium than party city.
Helium prices are artificially low leading to it's irreverent use.
- Brian_K_White 3y agoThe market doesn't care why customers pay a lot for something, and doesn't care if something like health care costs more than it needs to and thus serves fewer humans that it could, or how those few lucky are selected. The market does things efficiently, they are only occasionally and incidentally desirable things. It more often does undesirable things efficiently. The market is a tool like any other tool. It's effective, but has no innate value positive or negative in what direction that effectiveness is applied. It is a saw that will equally effectively cut your lumber or your leg. When you apply that lack of value to a human, the term is sociopath, and is pretty much equated with evil outside of a clinical context. Not because the sociopath actively wants to harm, but merely because they are truely neutral and don't care one way or another. The market is sociopathic, and is unfit for deciding anything.