Superior competitors don’t tend to cause widespread unemployment, though. People just go work for the company that’s on the rise.
I don’t know think it’s this simple. Suppose skills are nontransferable. Suppose the other company is in a different country. Suppose there’s only a limited demand for the goods produced and the other company can thus higher fewer workers than the first one did.
As for uncertainty about a coming war… he’s saying that it all comes back to natural resources, access to land, and sure enough that tends to be what wars are about.
Not exactly. Wars are about a lot of things, like fear one will be attacked by a neighbor or the desire to stop Communist ideology. The claim that every war is at root an issue of natural resources is only defensible if you make it extremely complex and thus impossible to falsify. Additionally, like I said before, that kind of situation is less about insufficient supply and more about living under conditions of scarcity which no economy can avoid.
Apologies, but I’m somewhat new here. I’m not seeing an easy way to delete a comment here (as opposed to retracting it); could you be so kind as to tell me how it’s done? (Sorry again for any trouble!)
No problem, you’re actually being very nice and helpful.
I’m not sure if there’s any easier official way it’s supposed to be done, but I normally click on the retract button in the bottom right of the comment, then refresh the page, and then click on the button in the bottom right of the comment (which will now be the delete button).
Edit: I don’t see any button for my above comment. I think we have to delete all the upstream comments first before it lets us delete these ones. Or maybe these lower comments aren’t allowed to be deleted at all, in which case I’m sorry about this, lol. Thanks for trying, if that’s what’s happened!
LOL this is hilarious. I vote we just leave this for posterity, (or let a moderator clean it up). I think we’ll only make things worse if this keeps going. Thanks for the fun.
I don’t know think it’s this simple. Suppose skills are nontransferable. Suppose the other company is in a different country. Suppose there’s only a limited demand for the goods produced and the other company can thus higher fewer workers than the first one did.
Not exactly. Wars are about a lot of things, like fear one will be attacked by a neighbor or the desire to stop Communist ideology. The claim that every war is at root an issue of natural resources is only defensible if you make it extremely complex and thus impossible to falsify. Additionally, like I said before, that kind of situation is less about insufficient supply and more about living under conditions of scarcity which no economy can avoid.
Uh… not to be a pedant, but are you sure you didn’t mean “hire” there?
You’ve retracted your comment. Will you now delete it? I want to make this entire chain of comments disappear including the empty box above.
Apologies, but I’m somewhat new here. I’m not seeing an easy way to delete a comment here (as opposed to retracting it); could you be so kind as to tell me how it’s done? (Sorry again for any trouble!)
No problem, you’re actually being very nice and helpful.
I’m not sure if there’s any easier official way it’s supposed to be done, but I normally click on the retract button in the bottom right of the comment, then refresh the page, and then click on the button in the bottom right of the comment (which will now be the delete button).
Edit: I don’t see any button for my above comment. I think we have to delete all the upstream comments first before it lets us delete these ones. Or maybe these lower comments aren’t allowed to be deleted at all, in which case I’m sorry about this, lol. Thanks for trying, if that’s what’s happened!
Did you get my PM?
Edit: Yep, now that this comment doesn’t have any replies attached, it is indeed delete-able. We’ll have to work our way up, if that’s okay with you.
Edit2: Please send me a PM if you see this message; then I’ll know it’s safe to delete it.
LOL this is hilarious. I vote we just leave this for posterity, (or let a moderator clean it up). I think we’ll only make things worse if this keeps going. Thanks for the fun.
Apologies, would you mind deleting your comment here? I was trying to avoid the ugly edit star.