Here's a question for all those supposed conservative capitalists out there,

cawacko said:
Funny you don't ask liberals the same question as if they aren't capitalist. That's not deflection at all.

Uber and surge pricing is the discussion. Yes the market responds to scarcity and demand and prices accordingly. That's how the (free) market works
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cawacko said:
Are you just re asking the OP?
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Is this your best response? I haven't seen you weigh in on the price gouging.
 
The Sage of Main Street said:
For Capitalism to Survive, the Race Must Go to the Fastest, Not the Fatherest


Everything rational has its limits. The real self-destruction of Capitalism is in allowing hereditary power. That puts inferior people in superior positions. Not only is Boss, Jr., unfit to take over as owner, all upper management defectives come from the hereditary classes. Familyism is more primitive than tribalism and leads to society being overrun by primitives, as happened before in the Dark Ages. That's why aristocratic academia preaches that there were no Dark Ages.

This subject is suppressed. But even the Cubs' long drought was caused when Wrigley, Jr. (PK) took over ownership soon after the 1945 league championship season. Iacocca, a more or less self-made man, was fired because of the third Ford's jealousy. On and on and on until everything collapses. They'll be the last to feel it, but it won't happen at all if we make them the first.

HeirHeads get in our way, so we must run them over, abolishing their unearned privileges. If we must do it on our own, so must they.
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Unlike price gouging, you've just described free market checks/balances. Incompetence rarely survives in a true free market. (trump notwithstanding). Of course, our weighted toward the wealthy system allows the trumps to continue to stumble and bumble along.
 
OPEC doesn't control our oil market and hasn't for many years. Where have you been since any number of oil producing countries are not OPEC members.
 
Legion Troll said:
Appears I have a better handle on it than yourself, least I understand the basic concept taught in high school

And still ain't seeing any conservative addressing the Martin Shkreli question
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You haven't?

Hey Legion if you wanted to talk about Martin why didn't you start a thread about him? Why the bait and switch?
 
Ralph said:
Much better than having the prices remain the same.....and having the stations ration or run completely out at the pump. As always, once the emergency subsides the prices will stabilize and return to normal.
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"What's Best for the 1% Is Best for All You Worthless Little People, Too"

One-sided again. The petrocrats have a responsibility to have extra gasoline ready so there is no shortage. It is their patriotic duty even to ship it if the roads are flooded. Or else they and their sons will have to learn the hard way what happens eventually to the selfish and conceited.
 
Preppy Progressives

Granule said:
Wrong again, Mrs Marx.

NO country should ever be saddled with the left's brand of "well fettered" capitalism. It's hell on earth for everyone involved. Except, of course, for you stupid masochists.
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The real Frau Marx was Jenny Von Westphalen, a guillotine-fodder creature so high up in the nobility that she could have married the Kaiser, the Czar, or the King of England. The desperately horny nerd, Professor Marx, became her sex slave. So Socialism is a revenge religion created by spoiled richkids who hate their fathers. See Patty Hearst.
 
The Sage of Main Street said:
"What's Best for the 1% Is Best for All You Worthless Little People, Too"

One-sided again. The petrocrats have a responsibility to have extra gasoline ready so there is no shortage. It is their patriotic duty even to ship it if the roads are flooded. Or else they and their sons will have to learn the hard way what happens eventually to the selfish and conceited.
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Only in the former Soviet Union or a NAZI regime (The national SOCIALIST German workers party)....is it patriotic to mandate anyone to sell, purchase, save...anything to do with the market place. Strange that the soviet union and the nazis shared one common trait (SOCIALISM) while both mandated that the state own all property. History teaches us that Socialism in its purest form is one of the most evil entities to have ever been created by mankind. Why? Socialism "sucks" the will to achieve from the individual....as evidenced right here in the states where almost 50% of the population have been relegated into welfare status...why work when Big Brother will provide by taking from our neighbors?

Enlighten us....why does your neighbor have any kind of responsibility toward the doless other than by a free will choice? Where's their responsibility? They are going to set on their ass and mandate that others save and store goods just for folks like them who are to damn lazy to take care of their own business/family? :) I won't worry.....THE STATE will take care of me.......LMAO
Do you know just how many shallow unmarked graves occurred doing the 20th century when SOCIAL JUSTICE was the rage? 94 million deaths occurred because of an ideology like the one suggested. That's some bad hat harry! Learn a little history actual....there has not been one government around the world dedicated to social justice..i.e., social communism that has not ended in revolution. To incl document governed the US (the constitution)....based upon individual freedom, capitalism, and self reliance. What? are you suggesting our government mirror a Christian Philosophy by mandate? What will happen to your Islamic terrorist friends? www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs7q_nQ_No In order to actually prompt the video presented you must manually enter the IP address....it seems our friendly neighborhood editors at YOU TUBE are at it again.
 
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cawacko said:
i answered earlier in the thread
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Your uber response doesn't qualify, and your general comment about the free market skirts the question. Unless you want to back off of your claim that we don't have unfettered capitalism
 
floridafan said:
OPEC doesn't control our oil market and hasn't for many years. Where have you been since any number of oil producing countries are not OPEC members.
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It 'controlled' it pretty well when Saudi Arabia opened up the valves and flooded our market with oil a few years ago.
 
Charging beyond what is reasonable is considered exploiting. It is not considered adjusting the price to match supply and demand.
Big difference, but nice try.
 
Lovebug said:
Charging beyond what is reasonable is considered exploiting. It is not considered adjusting the price to match supply and demand.
Big difference, but nice try.
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You are wrong. Did you see the empty shelves at stores? People were boarding. Nothing wrong with that. But price is a way to mitigate that while supply comes in to backfill.

For example.

Let's say you and I are competing for the same case of water and it is the last one and the owner has a $5.99 price tag on it. I have six cases sitting at home and it never hurts to have more so I might just take it leaving you with none. Now if the price of said case is $50 then my decision would probably be "I have plenty I ain't spending $50". If you had none you would spend it.

The only people who complain about gouging are the people who don't properly prepare for the unknown.

I distinctly recall GayRod making fun of people who he derisively called "preppers". Now he is rationing his electricity. Why? Because even though he has a generator he doesn't have the fuel to run it. Now his wife and children have to suffer for his lack of planning. I feel sorry for them because they have such a loser for a husband and father
 
I Love America said:
You are wrong. Did you see the empty shelves at stores? People were boarding. Nothing wrong with that. But price is a way to mitigate that while supply comes in to backfill.

For example.

Let's say you and I are competing for the same case of water and it is the last one and the owner has a $5.99 price tag on it. I have six cases sitting at home and it never hurts to have more so I might just take it leaving you with none. Now if the price of said case is $50 then my decision would probably be "I have plenty I ain't spending $50". If you had none you would spend it.

The only people who complain about gouging are the people who don't properly prepare for the unknown.

I distinctly recall GayRod making fun of people who he derisively called "preppers". Now he is rationing his electricity. Why? Because even though he has a generator he doesn't have the fuel to run it. Now his wife and children have to suffer for his lack of planning. I feel sorry for them because they have such a loser for a husband and father
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You live in Miami. You fill up your tank because of Irma. You make it to about Cape Canaveral, because you use more gas in the stop and go traffic. Here you have to pay double to get further out of state because your tank ran empty right next to a filling station run by a greedy creep. The hurricane is at your heels and you need the gas, although you were prepared.
 
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