| Subject: | Re: [socialcredit] Re: Replying to Radu | | Date: | Wednesday, February 9, 2005 18:48:13 (+0000) | | From: | Timothy Carpenter <timbeau_hk @........uk>
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Re: [socialcredit] Re: Replying to Radu
Dear Bill,
Yes I get that, but it still does not answer the question – buy more rubbish, same rubbish and save or go upmarket?
Tim
On 9/2/05 6:22 pm, "william_b_ryan@yahoo.com" <william_b_ryan@yahoo.com> wrote:
"How do you see their spending altered by social credit? Do you see them continuing to spend on splintery planks, spending EVEN MORE on splintery planks or buying better?"
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The intensity of competition would be lessened, inasmuch as the level of profit would be higher. At present, profit is suppressed due to the shortage of purchasing power in respect to the costs of production being impressed to the point of retail. It becomes a game of musical chairs where the more aggressive win, and the less aggressive lose--each time a chair is removed with the tick of the clock. The idea of social credit--so to speak--is to keep the quantity of chairs (consumer purchasing power) proportionally constant in respect to the production of goods and services. We do that by adding chairs as needed.
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Timothy Carpenter <timbeau_hk@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Joe,
Are you saying that even in a recession the firewood sells better? I would also think if you stock premium materials that these lines hold up better than many lesser products. Well, it depends on your catchment area mentality I suppose. It might also explain why some people suffer more in recessions and it is partly their own spending mentality that is to blame and not just evil captialists.
How do you see their spending altered by social credit? Do you see them continuing to spend on splintery planks, spending EVEN MORE on splintery planks or buying better?
Tim
On 9/2/05 4:30 pm, "Joe Thomson" <thomsonhiyu@shaw.ca> wrote:
(Tim wrote:-) Quality and value does not imply high price. Are you saying in times of trouble people waste their money on overpriced, poor quality items?
(Joe replies:-) From what I've observed that's exactly what they do, Tim. They may dearly love to have 'quality' and 'value' if they had money enough to afford it. But when they don't? (And most of them don't!) They DO 'waste' what they have on overpriced, (in relation to longevity and overall usefulness), poor quality items. The secret of modern retaling seems to be to find the products that sell the cheapest, and those are always the ones which will travel the shortest distance from store-shelf to land-fill! In our own business, it's always the low-priced 'crap' that sells first. Though what anyone could do with 'lumber' that's one jump removed from the fire-wood pile, is beyond me. There is no 'real' saving. It's simply they just ''don't have the money'' for something better.
Joe
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