| Subject: | Re: [socialcredit] Productivity | | Date: | Tuesday, February 28, 2006 12:51:37 (-0800) | | From: | Jeffery Smith <jjs @.........org>
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On Feb 27, 2006, at 9:04 PM, John G Rawson wrote:
> Thanks, Jeffery. I was trying to develop the theme that prices can
> not come down much without some form of catastrophe.
Yet we should welcome a falling cost of living, and finding a new niche
should not make us so insecure.
> The small grocers were unable to bring their costs down to compete,
> because of higher overheads etc. and therefore went bankrupt. Some
> undoubtedly found new niches, possibly some even converted to running
> brothels, but within that field they were wiped.
Here, it was just the opposite. Many went up-scale and got customers
who'd rather not shop at the big chains.
> Once prices rise, it is very difficult for them to come down.
Given current political arrangements.
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