LWDT 7: The Earth and Heavens Tremble.

[Cekoviu]

That is actually a good thing, because it discourages using water bottles, which are destructive to the environment. Furthermore, it incentivizes providing access to clean tap water to citizens of a country.

... Not in the event of a natural disaster, which is what this argument was about.

Oh, you'll have to excuse me. I've been skimming over the last few pages but not paying a ton of attention, and I must've missed that.

[Northern Davincia]

I'm not fluent in straw.

It's the spirit of your argument that matters, considering you're arguing that $500 cases of water bottles is actually a good thing.

I'm not arguing it's a good thing, I'm saying it's a neutral, but sometimes efficient, thing.

[Kowani]

It's the spirit of your argument that matters, considering you're arguing that $500 cases of water bottles is actually a good thing.

I'm not arguing it's a good thing, I'm saying it's a neutral, but sometimes efficient, thing.

It’s not efficient, either, though.

[Northern Davincia]

I'm not arguing it's a good thing, I'm saying it's a neutral, but sometimes efficient, thing.

It’s not efficient, either, though.

Because...?

[Kowani]

It’s not efficient, either, though.

Because...?

Artificial disruption of the market prevents it from returning to function normally faster.
Additionally, the power disparity between seller and buyer changes the dynamic fundamentally.

[Torrocca]

... Not in the event of a natural disaster, which is what this argument was about.

Oh, you'll have to excuse me. I've been skimming over the last few pages but not paying a ton of attention, and I must've missed that.

No worries! ^_^

It's the spirit of your argument that matters, considering you're arguing that $500 cases of water bottles is actually a good thing.

I'm not arguing it's a good thing, I'm saying it's a neutral, but sometimes efficient, thing.

You've sure been acting like it's a good thing, seeing as how deadset you are on defending something so atrocious amoral.

[Northern Davincia]

Because...?

Artificial disruption of the market prevents it from returning to function normally faster.
Additionally, the power disparity between seller and buyer changes the dynamic fundamentally.

Price controls for natural disasters do not fix the market disruption and do nothing to return it to how it functioned previously.

Oh, you'll have to excuse me. I've been skimming over the last few pages but not paying a ton of attention, and I must've missed that.

No worries! ^_^

I'm not arguing it's a good thing, I'm saying it's a neutral, but sometimes efficient, thing.

You've sure been acting like it's a good thing, seeing as how deadset you are on defending something so atrocious amoral.

Because I don't believe the alternative is better. I have to make the best out of a bad situation.
Again, I will take the word of economists over you.

[Torrocca]

Artificial disruption of the market prevents it from returning to function normally faster.
Additionally, the power disparity between seller and buyer changes the dynamic fundamentally.

Price controls for natural disasters do not fix the market disruption and do nothing to return it to how it functioned previously.

No worries! ^_^



You've sure been acting like it's a good thing, seeing as how deadset you are on defending something so atrocious amoral.

Because I don't believe the alternative is better. I have to make the best out of a bad situation.
Again, I will take the word of economists over you.

I adore how both of those conveniently ignore the part where the impoverished can't get dick-all in terms of supplies thanks to price-gouging.

[Crysuko]

I've been doing some historical studies to avoid larping as a 20th century revolutionary. How long til I stop feeling feels about La Guerra Civil Espania?

[Genivaria]

Does anyone think that advances in technology make the concept of a planned economy more feasible?

[Kowani]

Artificial disruption of the market prevents it from returning to function normally faster.
Additionally, the power disparity between seller and buyer changes the dynamic fundamentally.

Price controls for natural disasters do not fix the market disruption and do nothing to return it to how it functioned previously.

Ignoring the second part, I see.

But. No, they kind of do.

[The Xenopolis Confederation]

Does anyone think that advances in technology make the concept of a planned economy more feasible?

I certainly hope not.

[United Muscovite Nations]

It can be done pretty quickly, actually, given the government keeps records of where people live and the income of people.

Regardless, price gouging isn't effective rationing, because causes a situation where a family of 6 that makes $50,000 has to have less of necessities than a family of 3 that makes $80,000.

Higher prices discourage hoarding, which ought to balance out the distribution between those families.

No it wouldn't, because higher prices would still make poor people unable to pay those prices.

[Genivaria]

Would A People's History of the United States qualify?

[United Muscovite Nations]

Would A People's History of the United States qualify?

I suppose, but it's a bad book because it's intentionally self-aggrandizing and misleading on historiography.

[Bienenhalde]

Would A People's History of the United States qualify?

I suppose, but it's a bad book because it's intentionally self-aggrandizing and misleading on historiography.

Terribly boring, too.

[Northern Davincia]

Price controls for natural disasters do not fix the market disruption and do nothing to return it to how it functioned previously.

Ignoring the second part, I see.

But. No, they kind of do.

You haven't explained how the dynamic changes. And you haven't explained how price controls fix the disruption, because they clearly don't.

Higher prices discourage hoarding, which ought to balance out the distribution between those families.

No it wouldn't, because higher prices would still make poor people unable to pay those prices.

Not quite.

[Liriena]

Maybe the right can meme, but it sure as hell isn't very good at lying.

[Northern Davincia]

Maybe the right can meme, but it sure as hell isn't very good at lying.

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The ok hand worked. It'd be interesting if this did too.

[Liriena]

Maybe the right can meme, but it sure as hell isn't very good at lying.

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The ok hand worked. It'd be interesting if this did too.

Pretty hard for it to "work" when the media already reports that it's trolling and is treating it as such. /pol/tards have overplayed their hand. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Liriena]

The ok hand worked. It'd be interesting if this did too.

Pretty hard for it to "work" when the media already reports that it's trolling and is treating it as such. /pol/tards have overplayed their hand. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And this is why you probably shouldn't repeatedly plot to troll and gaslight the libs with fake nonsense in a public forum that everyone can read.

[LiberNovusAmericae]

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Edit: Wow, that is a stupid trolling campaign.

[Dumb Ideologies]

The hash-hoax is - internally - fairly well done and quite creative. I certainly laughed when I saw it.

But the target is rubbish because hashtags are too ubiquitous for it to work. Still, it keeps the little scamps out of mischief.

[Liriena]

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Edit: Wow, that is a stupid trolling campaign.

I miss the days when trolls were actually creative and just in it for the lulz, rather than a bunch of stupid teenage neonazis desperately trying to invent dogwhistles with the subtlety of an airhorn

[Proctopeo]

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Edit: Wow, that is a stupid trolling campaign.

I miss the days when trolls were actually creative and just in it for the lulz, rather than a bunch of stupid teenage neonazis desperately trying to invent dogwhistles with the subtlety of an airhorn

Still, it works as long as the attempted sting isn't against such a big symbol, like the octothorpe. Because people (well, largely journalists and those without critical thinking skills, but I repeat myself) are nearly deaf, or whatever, in this analogy.

"Pool's Closed" was a fucking riot btw