Re: Three Body Problem

On 8/22/2024 8:18 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 23:59:13 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
<blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
 

On 8/21/24 22:07, Robert Woodward wrote:

In article <va61n2$2c62$1@dont-email.me>,
   Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
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On 8/21/2024 2:50 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 8/21/2024 7:35 AM, Cryptoengineer wrote:

On 8/21/2024 3:02 AM, D wrote:

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On Tue, 20 Aug 2024, Scott Lurndal wrote:
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D <nospam@example.net> writes:

   This message is in MIME format.  The first part should be readable
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Please don't use MIME on usenet.
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On Sun, 18 Aug 2024, Lynn McGuire wrote:

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"On Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris said she has a
solution: a federal
ban on price gouging across the food industry."

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Which also has /nothing/ to do with "freezing food prices and making
grocery stores report any changes in their prices".
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You are incorrect. I was also commenting on Lynn, please stick to
that.

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I am correct. Please stick to the topic and stop trying to help Lynn
escape the consequences of his TPPT addiction.
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No Paul, you are wrong here. Any common sense interpretation of
that text
makes it obvious that Lynn is right and you are wrong.

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Paul is correct.   A ban on price gouging is _not_ the same as
price controls.
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One might even go so far as suggesting that the inability of the
federal government to enforce the anti-trust laws have increased
the frequency of price gouging.  Particularly in the grocery
industry which has overly consolidated over since 1980.
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You are incorrect. Let's have a look at the definitions:
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Price control:
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"Restriction on maximum prices that is established and maintained by
the government (as during periods of war or inflation)."
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Price gouging:
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"The act of or an instance of charging services or pricing goods at
unreasonably high prices."
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wordnik.com
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If I, as a company, cannot set my prices freely, my price is
controlled. Price control means that the government restrict the
ability of business to control its price.

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We really don't know the details of Harris's plan, so speculation is
speculative.
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If you, as a company, take advantage of a temporary situation to raise
your profit margin on say, a bottle of water from 100% to 1000% due
to being in a hurricane zone, that's gouging.
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Again, we're in the dark about what Harris is actually proposing.
I'm very skeptical over price controls, but we need to find out what she
is actually thinking.
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pt

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We will know when the grocery store shelves start going empty.
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You failed to notice that happening under Trump obviously.

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I never noticed a problem with grocery (or retail in general) store
stocking until February 2020. Some stores haven't yet completely
recovered.
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Well since March 19 2020 we had a worldwide pandemic and
it was necessary to curtail employee exposures and even trucking
businesses slowed down. Then due to rw advice frem #45 and the
likes of QAnon, a lot of poeple died, some were truckers. Meantime
cargo ships were anchored in San Francisco Bay waiting for personnel
to assemble to transfer cargo in spite of restrictions and the
trucks to carry the goods away to the markets. I imagine the scene
was the same or more so on the East Coast and Gulf ports.
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In San Francisco the closing of the office buildings
wiped out the small shops catering to them and to the businesses
in which they were employed. Lots of local folks lost there
work as things closed down. San Francisco has not quite recovered
though it is definitely doing better. Still lots of opportunity
in San Francisco as lots of prime retail and offic space is
available.  And Employers are calling the office personnel
to come to the office more often despite their work from home
performance.

 Or perhaps /because/ of their work from home performance, who can say?

Actually a lot of the Return To Office mandates are attempts to lose workers without the stigma of "layoffs".
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