Re:Chip shortage leads carmaker Opel to shut German plant un...
by chrisseaton on Thursday September 30, 2021 @05:57PM
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I don't get how it hurts anyone to have to pay market rate. If your product doesn't work at market prices, then that's your problem - not scalpers.
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Re:Chip shortage leads carmaker Opel to shut German plant un...
by yxwvut on Thursday September 30, 2021 @06:41PM
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This kind of perspective where any intervention-free (often equated with 'free market') outcome is ipso facto a socially good outcome is so frustrating because it transcends policy discussions into morality/dogma. Are you opposed to efforts to curtail rent seeking more broadly?
Re:Chip shortage leads carmaker Opel to shut German plant un...
by lmm on Thursday September 30, 2021 @10:46PM
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Making honest prices illegal is the most destructive intervention you can do. "Scalpers" aren't rent-seeking, quite the opposite.
Re:Chip shortage leads carmaker Opel to shut German plant un...
by the__alchemist on Thursday September 30, 2021 @07:21PM
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I think you'll find most electronics products available to be unprofitable if they had to use these scalpers as suppliers.