Thursday, December 11, 2014

Do Leftys Have Any Idea Idea How Supply and Demand Works?




This is the headline at  San Francisco-based SFist.com:
Despite Promise Not To Price Gouge During Storms, Uber's Surge Pricing Hits Shocking High In San Francisco Today
The area is being battered by a major storm, which means it is slow and dangerous to drive, while more people want rides.

And SFist.com is objecting:
 [H]ere we are: flooded all to fuck, over a hundred thousand people without power all damn day, and according to KPIX, Uber is charging their highest fares ever, a reported 3.8x rate.

"By early morning rush hour, Uber was charging $.99 cents/minute or $4.94/mile. The minimum fare was over $16.00," they report....[D]oesn't jacking up prices the same day that public transit was crippled, driving was difficult, and, did I mention, over 100,000 people in San Francisco alone were without power seem a little bit predatory? (You'll be STUNNED to hear that the company has not responded to a request for comment at publication time.)
So what exactly would SFist.com like to see, lower prices, so that fewer drivers are drawn out in the storm?

Amazing.

21 comments:

  1. Universally, leftists are economics deniers. They don't know economics and don't want to know economics. They deny the laws of economics. Economics stands between them and their totalitarian dreams. If you try to teach them economics, they might kill you.

    Get used to it. They aren't going to change.

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    1. Get used to it. They aren't going to change."

      This^^

      ENVY is all they know. The one who are just ignorant prefer to stay that way. They're comfortable in their ignorance and stupidity.

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  2. The easy response....

    If you don't like Uber, look elsewhere.

    If a particular restaurant increases their prices, I can choose not to go there. I can choose not to care. I can choose to let them run their business as they please. Even if I must use a particular service, it is not in my power to dictate what they receive in return for service provided. I suppose if I don't like it enough, I could start my own business.

    Liberals have this need to manipulate and domesticate others to to their beliefs and values. But those beliefs and values are only knowledge. These liberals at one point in time chose to accept those beliefs and values. It is fine until they feel the need to oppress others.

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  3. "Do Lefty's Have Any Idea Idea How Supply and Demand Works? "

    Nope. And they're too lazy or stupid to find out.

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  4. They don't think, they feel. (as does the right, but they feel differently)

    They cannot think about the risks and reduced business of going out and driving in the storm and how that at regular prices drivers would prefer to keep their cars and themselves safe at home. They just feel that increased prices are unfair. Of course high prices are from taxation to encourage people to live the way they want them to live are just fine. It's always about what they feel. There is no thinking involved.

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    1. "They don't think, they feel. (as does the right, but they feel differently)"

      Simple, but brilliant way of putting it!

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  5. "So what exactly would SFist.com like to see, lower prices, so that fewer drivers are drawn out in the storm?"

    Yes.

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    1. right. two forces at work here: 1) as B said, they don't think, the feel and 2) if everyone can't get a ride, nobody should get a ride.

      Have you ever noticed leftist use the word equality all the time without specifying whether they mean equality of outcome or opportunity? I've seen this in my kids text books. It's almost shocking how little effort goes into rational analysis.

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  6. I honestly believe the mind of prog-lefty (socialist, pinko, etc.) is wired in such a way that rejects reality when it doesn't conform to their vision of the way things should be. If any one of them were asked if they support chattel slavery the response would be one of disgusted horror and blubbering denial. But ultimately, slavery is exactly what they want. They suffer from extreme cognitive dissonance and they'll do anything to make sure we suffer along with them.

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    1. I totally agree. Further, there are lots of rich liberals who all seem to understand "economics" just fine when it comes to their own bank account. They purposefully reject reality when it interferes with their vision of them saving the world through government and violence.

      Most importantly, they refuse to even process the concept that THEIR interference is the CAUSE of most problems. That is the major reason why liberals will totally reject Austrian analysis which is based upon leaving people alone if only to generate undistorted prices. It is the major reason why Neocons will totally reject non-intervention and blowback analysis which is also based upon leaving people alone to solve their own problems.

      Both of those groups have an near total emotional attachment to their vision of saving the world through government and violence. They are not inclined to reflect that they and their precious vision is the cause of most problems. And I don't see them giving up their vision.

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    2. FZ explained them best with...

      And in your dreams
      You can see yourself
      As a prophet
      Saving the world
      The words from your lips
      (I am not a crook)
      I just can't believe you are such
      A fool

      I just can't believe
      You are such a fool
      I just can't believe
      You are such a fool

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    3. You are right to distinguish the "true believers" and those who use the lefty language to their own benefit, whether it be money, power, or just plain "street cred."

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    4. I bought that record when it came out in 1970. Zappa made it ok to think hippies, leftists and military types were all insane. Rothbard naturally followed.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zjJw9YvA18

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  7. Give 'em what they ask for. Screw the morons. Hopefully this storm will flush all the dummies into the bay.

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  8. Hold on - Is it minimum wage laws or maximum wage laws they support? I'm really confused...

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  9. I agree with BR and FZ regarding insanity. But would add the righties and statists in general. There are way too many people who are insane to varying degrees for there to be anything remotely similar to a free market. Only time and mother nature can change this. So as Voltaire reportedly said: "hide well to live well."

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    1. I have a Neocon Facebook "friend" who has a masters degree in economics from the University of Chicago. He knows nothing about Austrian analysis and any mention of "blowback" in foreign affairs blows right by him. "Benghazi" is a scandal, but not Obama and Hillary turning Libya into a jihadist paradise. They are Kumbaya weenies who don't understand the dangers of radical Muslims and who Democrats just want to hug and try to understand. In fact, there is no such thing as a "Neocon" and the entire torture report was a pack of lies. And the 1980s' vintage chemical weapons the US found in 2004 (and hid their discovery) is evidence that Saddam did indeed have WMD which justified the invasion. etc......

      Facebook is a free Focus Group tool. We're doomed.

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  10. Superficially, it appears that the MYTH OF FDR still has this country by the throat. We've made no inroads at all. He fixed the free market with the New Deal so the market is evil and the government is magic. Thanks to him, the USA fixed Germany and Japan. The idea that German and Japanese culture allowed both nations to fix themselves doesn't compute. Because we fixed Germany and Japan, we can just as easily fix Iraq and Afghanistan with our might and wise benevolence. If we haven't, it's only because we didn't try hard enough and/or we were sabotaged. Iraq would have been fine if only that weenie peacenik Obama hadn't pulled the troops out early. The entire country basically thinks like warmed-over Marxists and Keynesians.

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  11. And WAAYY more are pissed that the CIA torture report got released than are pissed that that stuff happened. And these are people who otherwise seem perfectly normal!

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  12. Ask a Leftist to take less money than they can get for a service they provide and see the reaction you get.

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