Post #2747988
2026-04-29 14:54 UTC
What econ101 does to your brain is not normal. Into to Econ has y'all seeing a sinking ship and the first thing to ask is "how much is this life jacket worth in dollars"?
Replies (3)
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@timestatic@feddit.org 2026-04-29 15:46
This is just an illustration and has nothing to do with the actual situation. Life vests are free in emergency. You're making a fuss over nothing.
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@Windex007@lemmy.world 2026-04-29 22:40
Completely agree, actually. This isn't what **I** think someone **should** do. It is morally abhorrent. This is just a contrived scenario to try and prime an intuition to help OP understand why small changes in supply can have outsized effects on price. If at any point someone sees human suffering or danger and thinks "profit opportunity", I have a hard time understanding why that person should be permitted to continue to participating in society freely.
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@douglasg14b@lemmy.world 2026-04-30 07:48
It's a contrived example. This isn't hard to understand