But the post says „they stopped buying and price goes down“ reduced demand makes price go down. I‘m not defending corpos or claiming that they‘re not greedy. I‘m just discussing what is stated in this post because it‘s a bad example of greed.
“Supply and demand” refers to the two-way street of scarcity wherein the less “supply” there is, and the more “demand” for the product, the higher the price will be. The point is, if you want to attribute it to “supply and demand”, you need both ends - the scarcity of supply, and a rise in demand. If you have one or the other, but not both, and prices increase, it’s due to other causes.
Attributing price changes to “supply and demand” doesn’t mean it’s being attributed to both (ie supply changes and demand changes), simply that there is now a mismatch between the two
In this case, if supply remains the same, but demand decreases, then the price will go down until they are in equilibrium again
Yeah we had a temporary scarcity of supply as global production dropped as a result of our attempt to put the economy into a medically induced coma in 2020.
I mean, we also had a massive decrease in competition as a result of that same economic policy. So companies have been more able to step away from the supply and demand curves in terms of pricing, because the natural market got screwed up.
Yeah, lowering prices by itself isn’t evidence that it was just greed all along, they conceivably could be lowering prices to the point that sales on those items are no longer profitable in order to shed inventory because some money (at a loss) is better than no money (at an even bigger loss)
But the post says „they stopped buying and price goes down“ reduced demand makes price go down. I‘m not defending corpos or claiming that they‘re not greedy. I‘m just discussing what is stated in this post because it‘s a bad example of greed.
“Supply and demand” refers to the two-way street of scarcity wherein the less “supply” there is, and the more “demand” for the product, the higher the price will be. The point is, if you want to attribute it to “supply and demand”, you need both ends - the scarcity of supply, and a rise in demand. If you have one or the other, but not both, and prices increase, it’s due to other causes.
Attributing price changes to “supply and demand” doesn’t mean it’s being attributed to both (ie supply changes and demand changes), simply that there is now a mismatch between the two
In this case, if supply remains the same, but demand decreases, then the price will go down until they are in equilibrium again
In a terrarium economy. We’re so divorced from actual value this econ 101 stuff barely applies to late stage capitalism.
Yeah we had a temporary scarcity of supply as global production dropped as a result of our attempt to put the economy into a medically induced coma in 2020.
I mean, we also had a massive decrease in competition as a result of that same economic policy. So companies have been more able to step away from the supply and demand curves in terms of pricing, because the natural market got screwed up.
Yeah, lowering prices by itself isn’t evidence that it was just greed all along, they conceivably could be lowering prices to the point that sales on those items are no longer profitable in order to shed inventory because some money (at a loss) is better than no money (at an even bigger loss)