natural prices can only exist in an environment where every consumer and producer has all the information and is completely rational.
if you are rich and a vegetable seller who typically charges $5 for a vegetable charges you $10 you are unlikely to bargain as you would consider it a waste of your time and energy and just buy it. is this person being rational by not wanting to waste their time or irrational because they aren't squeezing more out of the seller.
no. because the prices are influenced by external factors. i live in a country where markets like these exist and the price is not 'natural' in any way, in an idealized world maybe but not in reality.
firstly, transporting any commodity (and inputs such as fertilizers) requires fuel and fuel prices aren't determined by such idealized markets you mentioned, its determined by what cartels and oligopolies want it to be. you are also ignoring subsides, not just by the national governments but foreign governments. for example, developed countries provide a shit ton of subsidies which pull down prices in the international markets, without restrictions and tariffs these displace local production.
there is also the fact that food prices are very inelastic, the seller can push prices very high and the consumer will be forced to accept it because you can't live without food.
i dont really get the middle eastern market you are mentioning because in reality there is absolutely price discrimination going on.
also China was handpicked by the American capitalists to be the manufacturing hub (cheap currency was a cherry on top). Countries recently forced to devalue currencies haven't had a similar manufacturing boom especially because global economy is doing kinda shit.
The previous leftist government had used complicated currency controls, consumer subsidies and other measures to inflate the peso’s official value and keep several key prices artificially low, including for gas, transportation and electricity.
Yea devaluing peso from 360 for a dollar to 790 for a dollar instantly meanwhile is such a big brain play.
there is no such thing as a 'natural' price. every price is artificial. OPEC is literally a cartel ffs. The concept of 'artificial' pricing is so libertarian brained.
Reddit banned about 2,000 subreddits on Monday, most notably r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse, in a move the platform said was intended to crack down on online communities that "promote hate."
In a Reddit post, CEO Steve Huffman said the decision comes after discussions about how the platform can "[close] the gap between our values and our policies to explicitly address hate."
Also Lemmy don't require too much of moderation ! as any user can use the block feature in their options removed externally hosted image so you should not censor content in behave of others !
way too vague. there is no such thing as absolute free speech. nowhere, not on the internet or in real life.
some of reddit's actions are very much justified like banning r/jailbait r/watchpeopledie r/TheDonald. Others were clearly banned because it criticized capitalist status quo such as r/chapotraphouse
Not really. Driver arguably deserves more blame than the victim. Normal people don't expect to be run over on a beach, its generally considered a vehicle free zone.
You could argue that, if you replaced soft sand with carpark or paddock, the kid would likely be dead.
Although Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made it clear that he wants to resume the war after the truce expires, he may face increased pushback from the international community if he does so, according to analyst Sultan Barakat.
“The war status in Israel and the declaration of war and the emergency law that he has instituted works well for his political agenda and for his survival. He would want to extend that as much as possible,” Barakat, a professor in conflict and humanitarian studies at Qatar Foundation’s Hamad Bin Khalifa University, told Al Jazeera.
“Now, whether he is able to go back with the same intensity, I really doubt it. I mean, it has even divided Europe, so Europe will be next complaining about this,” he said. “And of course, the Arab neighbouring countries, they’ve bent backwards to accommodate the pressure.”
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I would take prison not just for obvious ethical reasons but also because I don't want to be shitting diarrhea in my battlefield diapers.