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In this case, I suppose the “invisible hand” operates by making Mammoth a less desirable place to live, causing them to lose tourism and residents to places wit
by kevinventullo 2y ago
In this case, I suppose the “invisible hand” operates by making Mammoth a less desirable place to live, causing them to lose tourism and residents to places with stronger competition.
- banku_brougham 2y ago"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the publick, or in some contrivance to raise prices" - Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
- tedunangst 2y agoThe feds were right. We need to shut down defcon.
- banku_brougham 2y agoI just now got what you are saying. This is interesting, I mean A.S. was talking about the merchant class but I suppose infosec professionals as well as commercial parties attend defcon. Are there market-directed shennanigans going alongside the tech workshops and talks? I wonder what Crowdstrike and AWS executives talk about at those kind of industry gatherings. I guess the NSA isn't a commercial interest exactly... I think A.S. was not proposing a theorem as much as casting a jaundiced eye over such proceedings. But he never did a hackathon.
- bluGill 2y agoNo, it becomes a "food desert", and people just learn to buy a car and drive to the nearest town with a store once a week. So really it just increases car dependency. (they are buying too much to bike or take transit - you need a car for the large storage space)
- carabiner 2y agoThis is a ski town that gets buried in snow for half the year. Everyone has a car and you can't really bike safely with the snow plows running, icy streets. No one really lives there because of the food quality. The article leaves this out. Mammoth isn't just "rural," it's a wealthy vacation town hemmed in by federal land with severely limited land. But then it confuses it with Bishop which is 40 minutes away and has its own issues (Bishop is kind of walkable, Mammoth isn't really).
- bluGill 2y agoMany bikers in canada, minnesota, and other places where they get snow would beg to disagree
- kevinventullo 2y agoI mean sure driving to the nearest town is one solution, but another one is moving to a different town. In any case, the point stands that it makes Mammoth a less desirable place to live.
- bluGill 2y agoI'm given the impression that everyone in Mammoth drives already and so this isn't a big deal. It is annoying, but it doesn't change the desirability of living there by any noticeable amount.
- mmooss 2y agoIf Mammoth is your home, your concerns extend beyond those of an economic commodity.