Everyday paradox

I guess you just realize there is a toll booth on both sides of the housing highway.

Re: Everyday paradox


Easy answer, it doesn't.

Glad to hear it. But I think every sworn capitalist would disagree.

Yeah, wouldn't they just.

That's the thing with capitalists. Their foundation is a desire to make money, not to do what's right or honest. Morals don't enter into it.

Cyracuz

I don't see any contradiction. Unless the advertiser is talking about the same house, there are different market prizes to different kinds of houses.
Poor capitalists: nobody seems to like them.

Years ago there was a car dealer in Detroit who ran television ads in which he claimed to sell each car "at a little loss, and make a profit on volume."

That's a pretty nifty trick too.

Greyfan

That is because the secret of the advertiser - and in fact of all capitalism - is to make you think you are the only receiver of the message. Not to think about the "poor idiot" that will buy your house or car by the highest prize, and that other "poor idiot" that is going to sell you his house or car by the lowest prize. They don't exist. You are the only one that matters.
Their only purpose is to make you forget that the "poor idiot" is you and all the clients of that firm.
And the most surprising fact is that it works.

the classic of course is from the Book Catch 22 where a really good capitalist buys eggs in Egypt for 3 cents each and sells them in Italy for 2 cents each, and he explains his "profit" as being the result of "volume"