The difficulty of selling a Wii

[Final-Fan]

Eomund said:

Final-Fan said:

Eomund said:

Final-Fan said:

 

In my analogy, he takes a bucket away from one side of the lake to sell to the other for profit. In RL, he takes a Wii away from the store to sell on craigslist for profit. Your objection that he "did not go out of his way to buy a second Wii, he decided to invest in it for profit" is very stupid and frankly disappointing; cdude has specifically stated that he bought the Wii with the sole intention of selling it at great profit and, moreover, intends to apply that revenue to doing it AGAIN with MORE WIIS.

The Flatlake analogy is doing better than ever, thank you very much; with the Flatlake at low levels only people willing to walk to the new lake boundary (i.e. go to the store early) are going to get what they want; cdude's actions cause the people in the area he is taking water from to have to walk further (someone at that store was SOL and will have to keep searching). Again, cdude is depriving people in one place of a resource in order to sell it at profit in another place; he essentially takes a resource hostage and ransoms it to the highest bidder. He is therefore a PARASITE -- but his parasitism is an acceptable loss to any sensible capitalist, and all I ask is that he admits to his parasitic nature.

HAH! That is a laugh! Thanks for a good laugh... I also remember he said that he was in a store and saw one, so he bought it, blah blah blah... I do agree that he bought it for the sole intention of selling it, but my point is...

THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH DOING JUST THAT!

You and I simply disagree because of our differring world views. I am in favor of a Free Trade Market. You apparently do not agree with me.

About Flatland: The new lake boundary will keep decreasing until it simply becomes a spring. People will still want the water, but there won't be enough to go around regardless if Cdude gets an extra bucket of water. He is simply getting the water for someone else who wouldn't have gotten to the spring in time. While it might have taken water from the general pool that means nothing, as it replenishes automatically. Also who is to say that the person who doesn't get water because Cdude got an extra bucket couldn't barter with Cdude for the water?

If you want to call him a parasite, its not my business. I simply do not see his actions as parasitic.

And you are welcome for helping you define a new Flatland universe. Go make some money off it! hehe. ;)

 Free Trade Markets are fine with me, and although I think we probably have deeply different political and economic ideals, I believe that you misunderstand my problem with cdude's actions. 

My problem with him is that he claims that he is providing some kind of freaking service to the market, when in fact he is providing service to one individual by the expedient of denying the exact same service to another and profiting from that act.  I have stated several times that this is an acceptable loss to our semicapitalist system, but it remains a LOSS, and all I want from him is that he accept and admit what he is truly doing instead of painting himself as some kind of benevolent businessman.