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Re: How prices changed at a Walmart in a year

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Post by mindslight » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 6:11 PM UTC

chadmeister wrote: post #90

mindslight wrote: post #78

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Thank you for explaining how I am using terms incorrectly according to this model you are trying to constrain my analysis into. It's so much clearer now that I realize the concern I am describing simply cannot exist! "It's just fundamentally dishonest to discard a political viewpoint by condescending from a paradigm that rules out said political viewpoint by construction." (And we wonder why political polarization ha…

I had really hoped this discussion would end with your appreciation for dragonwriter's participation in it. It is very clear he understands economics much better than you do.

If by economics you mean "mainstream economic dogma", then sure. Every abstraction necessarily leaves something out, and I'm arguing for what has been cast aside. Simply restating the dogma does not address my claim.

Concretely this dogma was formed based around a need to be manufacturing more stuff. Now we have plenty of stuff but are depleting our natural resources creating a massive surplus just to throw it away. I'd say it's time to revisit the assumptions of that dogma.

Re: How prices changed at a Walmart in a year

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Post by madcaptenor » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 6:24 PM UTC

js2 wrote: post #80

corodra wrote: post #70

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That's because you lot focus on peaches. Which, I mean, yea... Only good reason to risk getting a bs speeding ticket in Georgia is for a peach run.

North Carolinian here. SC peaches are superior to GA peaches.

They might be. I don't see SC peaches in Georgia, and I haven't been there, so I haven't tried them. I assume the South Carolinians are hoarding their peaches for themselves.

(If I have a dog in this fight, it's actually New Jersey, where I grew up.)

Re: How prices changed at a Walmart in a year

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Post by tracker1 » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 10:52 PM UTC

fludlight wrote: post #68

cosmie wrote: post #62

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One company I worked at imported broccoli from China to their factory on the eastern side of Canada, for products intended for distribution across all of Canada, Mexico, and the US. Even with constant quality issues and recalls[1], there just weren't many other options out there. For sufficiently large orders, it's hard to secure consistent sourcing more locally. China constitutes half of the world's product, India a…

Maybe we should reallocate some of the corn, wheat, and soybean subsidies to domestic vegetable production.

I'd be happy to see soya, wheat and corn subsidies die altogether.

Re: How prices changed at a Walmart in a year

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Post by chrischen » Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 5:36 PM UTC

will4274 wrote: post #79

chrischen wrote: post #28

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I don’t think the administration is deluded by that reality, but many of the supporters are. They just wanted jobs and Trump said yes, but he’s essentially misleading them.

"fed" is the word that is offensive. The notion that Trump supporters repeat lines that are fed to them like an actor on a stage, rather than analyzing different explanations and coming to a conclusion on which one was most accurate. Reinforced by "common sense easily precludes"

When a group indiscriminately accepts the words of someone they are being "fed." This happens for both liberals and conservatives. I'm describing the character of that specific subgroup of Trump supporters which are being fed his words, not that all Trump supporters are being fed.