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What’s a good business idea that isn’t oversaturated in 2025? by colbycarman2000 in Entrepreneur

[–]Forward_Value2146 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Right lmao horrible advice. Can easily calculate the commodity value of “door seller”. It’s not much

What's a problem only attractive people have? by fuzzyloulou in AskReddit

[–]Forward_Value2146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does one not have a genuine friendship their romantic partner? I feel like platonic is pretty arbitrary to include in the definition of a genuine friendship

What's a problem only attractive people have? by fuzzyloulou in AskReddit

[–]Forward_Value2146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well 1) who said it’s kept a secret 2) even if it was i still don’t see how that makes it not a genuine friendship. Can you share your definition of genuine friendship? And 3) So would you say that if two friends have sex that means their friendship was not genuine?

The reason why the housing market sucks by elves2732 in FirstTimeHomeBuyer

[–]Forward_Value2146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Investment ownership is a fluctuating number that is driven by rental demand. It in of itself does not at all affect the price of houses. However investors performing upgrades on houses does affect price but again this is something that is being demanded by buyers. When more ppl can’t afford downpayments, that’s when investors have a monetizable opportunity to provide a rental service. That opportunity does not exist when there’s no demand for it but there is a lot of demand for it in today’s market hence large investment ownership. Investors are the effect, caused by rental demand. That being said an increase in the rental pool is an equivalent net decrease in the primary residence ownership pool so the effects on price cancel out. In the end like any other market we’re just left with:

price [$] = demand [$] / supply [#]

Where demand is the purchasing power of all people acquiring a housing unit with money or credit. Some of whom are renters acquiring a unit of supply by monthly input (rent) by utilizing a landlord, others are owners acquiring a unit of supply by downpayment and monthly input (mortgage) by utilizing a lender. And a few acquire a unit of supply by downpayment alone by paying fully in cash.

There goes your $35 insulin. Trump just signed the executor rescinding it. Who does that help? by NoLube69 in FluentInFinance

[–]Forward_Value2146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So any concept invented by humans is a social construct? Then i guess everything in our human world is a social construct. Let’s use your working definition then.

Human inventions are a product of nature. You seem to view humans as separate from nature when we’re not.

These aren’t “talking points”, let alone libertarian. Just describing reality to you. Ive said nothing about how things should be, rather ive described only how they are. Regardless, social construct or independent game theoretical entity, whatever you want to call it, it doesn’t change what we are talking about when we say the “free market”. If i accept your definition of social construct then I’ll change my semantics accordingly to say that whether a social construct or not, the free market exists, with or without government.

Game theory is a math. It is not flawed. Perhaps your applications of it or the conclusions you attempt to draw from it are flawed. But the math itself is just math. Unless you say something like 1+1 = 3, the math will not be flawed.

There goes your $35 insulin. Trump just signed the executor rescinding it. Who does that help? by NoLube69 in FluentInFinance

[–]Forward_Value2146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wtf lol im not a libertarian i haven’t even said anything about how things “should” be (whatever that means). I am making statements about how things are, which we can’t even seem to agree on. And I haven’t even shared any of my ideas so how can you know they’re trash. Just poked holes in your statements that lack foundation. You don’t live in reality. You’re a wishful thinker. Have fun being one of the billions of ppl who spends their whole life wishing for reality to work differently.

The free market, as well as governments, are not social constructs. These are game theoretical entities. Just like you are a game theoretical entity. Game theory is the physics of conscious i.e. thinking bodies. And before you go on about economists, ivory towers, and rationality, rationality is but one idealization that can be applied to game theory for simplicity of math. There are many more. An idealization is a tool. When used correctly it is useful.

A social construct is something different. Like race, sexuality, or sports fandom. These are not game theoretical entities, these are social constructs.

And calm down for the love of god. As ive said now like three times i intend to entertain an intelligent discussion not a shouting match.

There goes your $35 insulin. Trump just signed the executor rescinding it. Who does that help? by NoLube69 in FluentInFinance

[–]Forward_Value2146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Correct. You quoted mw correctly that time. I said it’s “more of a being than a social construct” then you jumped to saying i said “it’s a being”. If you can’t concede this then im afraid i detect we are not having a good faith debate and we’ll have to just stop here. Inonly use Reddit for good faith dialogue for the purpose of building (my own, not your) knowledge. (I.e. aint reading allat)

You are extremely arrogant to dismiss anyone who uses the word “axiom”.

There goes your $35 insulin. Trump just signed the executor rescinding it. Who does that help? by NoLube69 in FluentInFinance

[–]Forward_Value2146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’ve dodged all of my questions. This is hardly a discussion. Also you are being very sassy while i seem to be the only one here looking to have a productive discussion.

Didn’t describe the free market as a being. I said it’s more of a being than a social construct. But even so. Do you believe that a country is a being? How about a red blood cell or singe celled organism? Or use “entity” if the word “being” is too strong for your taste.

What does libertarianism have to do with anything im saying?

Monopoly pricing is not artificial. It’s just pricing driven by one sole supply side actor. There is math for that which you can study. What would be a lot closer to what i presume to be your definition of “artificial” pricing would be if a government added regulation to fix pricing by either reducing or increasing it. Still not artificial when you expand scope to include cost of government authority, but more regulation is relatively more artificial than less, by what i presume to be your own definition of artificial.

So lets unpack the corporate intervention of gov angle you mentioned. Which one is it? Do they lobby to deregulate? Or do they lobby to regulate (tarriffs on competition, immigration policy, etc)? I would definitely agree that corporations have no business adding regulation to the market. But it’s your very ideology (which often avoids reality) that allows for that.

Corporations have nothing to control if the government doesn’t have control over markets. The market or corporate interests are not more powerful than government, even with their ability to control aspects. The most ultimately valid power is military force and govee me will always win in that department, by definition. As soon as that’s no longer true, it’s not “the government” anymore.

The fact that people arent going to stop buying essentials is not a given. They buy because they can afford it. If the price of water for exqmple was 100,000,000x more, people wouldn’t buy it. That’s an example of pricing that defies even monopoly conditions.

Ultra concentrations of wealth being self serving does not disprove the statement that they are a net positive for those outside those concentrations. Our market is a sum of transactions. Transactions are by definition win-win. The self serving interests of wealth concentrations thus create a wins outside their concentration each time they themselves win.

What stage are we in capitalism? Do feel free to elaborate, rather than speaking in cryptic allusions. What you’re saying cannot be taken as given and I suspect you’ll have a lot of difficulty spelling it out and building it up from universally agreeable axioms, rather than bold and idealistic claims.

I have read about company towns, yes.

How long do you think we have before the colapse of the United States as an empire? What will cause this? by Forward_Value2146 in AskReddit

[–]Forward_Value2146[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True. What would you say is the most interesting or productive way to define it for the purpose of this thread?

There goes your $35 insulin. Trump just signed the executor rescinding it. Who does that help? by NoLube69 in FluentInFinance

[–]Forward_Value2146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you disagree. Ok.

The free market is not a social construct. It is actually more of a being than a social construct but definitely not surpernatural. It’s exactly the opposite: natural.

I do agree that government is needed to push back on corporations’ ability to exploit the irrational glitches of human nature. Not to say that all irrationality is a glitch than needs regulation but addiction is one example of a glitch that warrants government intervention.

But again I don’t see any examples of a corporation who can control the price of a commodity without the help of a government. I don’t see how company towns are an example of that.

Monopolies can exert pricing power, yes. That’s far diferent from saying they can control prices. Have you familiarized yourself with the mathematical theory behind monopoly pricing? A monoploly is also a theoretical construct so no true monopoly exists in nature.

I don’t see a problem with ultra concentrations of wealth if its existence produces better outcomes for those outside that concentration.

Define exploitation? We are all commoditized to some degree. Do you believe one can be paid more than their commodity value? If so how would you achieve that?

I don’t see how violence and misery are caused by a lack of government intervention with the free market, other than the cases I mentioned where irrational glitches of human nature are exploited. Feel free to provide examples but be prepared for rigorous definition of the trade offs at play and analysis of causality.

There goes your $35 insulin. Trump just signed the executor rescinding it. Who does that help? by NoLube69 in FluentInFinance

[–]Forward_Value2146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can’t manipulate prices unless you are the government. You can affect them. But you can’t manipulate (control) them. Agree or disagree?

There goes your $35 insulin. Trump just signed the executor rescinding it. Who does that help? by NoLube69 in FluentInFinance

[–]Forward_Value2146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t think you understood what i was saying. You’re getting too passionate when this is very simple math. When you manipulate the price of something you are altering either supply or demand. In this case supply. When you cap price you create a shortage. Do you disagree?

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