Why Barcelona Bought the Building That Symbolizes Its Housing Crisis

Re:Why Barcelona Bought the Building That Symbolizes Its Hou... by whatshisface on Saturday February 22, 2025 @10:41AM (#43139939)

All of the scenarios you're talking about are covered in economics 101. You're describing supply and demand with them.

In supply and demand, you have these things called "supply curves," and "demand curves." The price is on the x axis, and the volume cleared in the marketplace is on the y axis. Changes in the situation move the curves around.

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Re:Why Barcelona Bought the Building That Symbolizes Its Hou... by PaulDavisThe1st on Saturday February 22, 2025 @11:07AM (#43140176)

> Changes in the situation move the curves around.

Aye, there's the rub. Changes in the situation do NOT move the gravity curves around in any scenario where Newtonian physics is a reasonable model to be using. So whatever kind of "law" this "law of supply and demand" actually is, it clearly is not like the laws of physics.

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Re:Why Barcelona Bought the Building That Symbolizes Its Hou... by whatshisface on Saturday February 22, 2025 @12:58PM (#43141361)

The forces in Newtonian mechanics are situational. They would be one thing for gravity, another for springs. Mechanics is a framework for stating things about forces.

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