Comment: Wrong.

(See in situ)

In reply to comment: Is the soap you make ... (see in situ)


On so many levels.

First of all, yes, making soap is much cheaper than buying it. And is of superior quality.

Second, if a company is using externalities to artificially reduce their cost, then the product only appears cheaper but is in fact not.

I could make a really cheap product by using slave labor, and whipping people to the point of death. But it is only cheap because I am stealing other peoples lives, which means it isn't cheaper, I am simply transferring a portion of the cost.

The market drives prices. Competition is good. Your argument seems to be that having large companies and less market competition somehow creates a better price or product? You do realize that is in direct contradiction to all of our general beliefs about markets and competition.

It's amazing how the pro-corp folks get this blind spot.

The Philosophy Of Liberty -