• Victoria Antoinette @lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    If the demand for animal products goes down, so will supply

    that’s not causal, and, also not what the theory of supply and demand says. the theory says that the price will decrease, not that production will.

    • Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org
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      11 days ago

      That’s why when nobody wanted vhs anymore they just kept making them at the exact same rate for less and less money. They’re still producing billions of vhs players every year and selling them at huge losses because wikipedia said something about supply and demand. You’ve cracked the code, you’re morally in the clear now, you found the magic words that absolve you of all personal responsibility. Hoorayyyyyyyy.

          • Victoria Antoinette @lemmy.world
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            11 days ago

            “influences” is a pretty weasley word. show me a formula that actually (as in, verifiably) predicts how “demand” (a pretty weasley word itself) influences supply (probably the only concept for which we will be able to produce quantifiable numbers)

                • Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org
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                  10 days ago

                  ok, I used to eat animal products, but then I decided it wasn’t nice and so I stopped supplying them to myself.

                  • Victoria Antoinette @lemmy.world
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                    10 days ago

                    a moment of introspection here will show you that, in fact, this is about as close to the truth as you’re ever going to get. all economic theory is storytelling. you happen to like some particular stories better than others, and so you choose to believe them (and even repeat them as though tehy are true). but they are not True in an objective sense. there is no scientific experiment that can be constructed to test these claims which would satisfy the skepticism of a critical rationalist inquiry.

                    that’s fine. i believe (or act like i believe) lots of stories that i can’t prove the truth of, which are actually unprovable. we all do. just don’t try to pretend it’s science.