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This is such a weird argument by the guardian. You can simply charge more for more durable products as long as people want your product.
by ch4s3 2y ago
This is such a weird argument by the guardian. You can simply charge more for more durable products as long as people want your product.
- t43562 2y agoThat could assume there was a linear realationship between price and demand. Possibly if you need to charge x% more then your sales might drop off almost entirely as you raised your price to that level.
- ch4s3 2y agoObviously there are a lot of factors. The article points out that the plain East German style glasses were simply seen as uncool. I would also speculate that the company like many others from the GDR were heavily reliant on subsidies and ran rather inefficiently.