/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14283911]

>The free market is more efficie-

[Anonymous No.14283934]

>starving to death before finishing your post
what a shame

[Anonymous No.14283938]

>>14283911
?? if retards want to pay $12/gal for something they can get for free that's their right as consumer.

[Anonymous No.14283943]

>>14283911
-nt

[Anonymous No.14283949]

>NOOOOOO YOU CAN'T FULFILL A MARKET DEMAND THAT I DIDN'T THINK OF AND MAKE BILLIONS

[Anonymous No.14283953]

>>14283911
It's more efficient as a whole of course. There are going to be redundancies in particular instances, but that's simply because efficiency in this regard isn't the goal of capitalism. Making money is the goal of capitalism.

[Anonymous No.14284005]

I don’t understand your point.

[Anonymous No.14284012]

>>14284005
You are a brainlet then

[Anonymous No.14284021]

>>14284005
Well you see, OP thinks capitalism is inefficient because he doesn't understand it.

[Anonymous No.14284027]

>>14284005
"variety bad"
a strange point that is very popular among boomers ive seen it brought up by both Sanders and Houellebecq. they whined about there being too many choices of deodarant and shampoo or some shit and for some reason that bad

[Anonymous No.14284086]

>>14284027
Not OP, but it's a bit harder to defend the "variety" in bottled water when it's little more than than local tap water. You're right, but you're not getting at what OP was making fun of.

[Anonymous No.14284089]

>>14283938
im american, and i cannot get clean, filtered drinking water for free

[Anonymous No.14284101]

>>14283911
I'm a capitalist but I think water should probably remain nationalized.

[Anonymous No.14284109]

>>14283911
fiji is really good water
if you want to drink your commie tapwater then drink yourself

[Anonymous No.14284113]

>>14283911
Acqua Panna is objectively better than everything

[Anonymous No.14284119]

>>14283949
Ah but there's the catch. Marketing and advertisement is tasked with artificially instigating demands when there were none. Ever see Mad Men? Nobody wanted or needed bottled water until the bottled water industry spread various talked about how their tapwater is purer and mountain springy than regular tapwater.

[Anonymous No.14284122]

Haven’t been on /lit/ in years. Has it been overrun with zoomer consumer faggots?

[Anonymous No.14284129]

>>14284119
>talked
meant to say fairytales, but apparently I'm having a stroke

[Anonymous No.14284132]

>>14283949
The demand is artificially created, based retard.

[Anonymous No.14284136]

>>14284122
OK BOOMER. KEEP LIVING IN YOUR COMMIE FANTASY LAND BOOMER.

[Anonymous No.14284140]

>>14284089
You think people in other countries don't pay for tap water?

People who use more public water should pay more into the public pool, it's only fair.

[Anonymous No.14284145]

>>14284132
>Be hot outside
>Sell someone water
>Nobody would do it out of the goodness of their hearts
How is this wrong?

[Anonymous No.14284151]

>>14284136
Boomers being consumerist faggots is obvious. I just assume boomers stay on their containment board and are barely aware /lit/ exists.

[Anonymous No.14284163]

>>14284122
>>14284151
STOP CONSUMING WATER

[Anonymous No.14284165]

>>14283934
Kek

[Anonymous No.14284167]

>>14284145
Competing brands selling literal water creating false notions of superiority over each other is obviously pretty inefficient, based retard.

[Anonymous No.14284176]

>mfw in the year 2019 /pol/ is more redpilled on capitalism than /lit/ is

Okay now this is just sad.

[Anonymous No.14284181]

>>14284163
I get my purified water for 25 cents a gallon from a machine in my neighborhood instead of buying bottles of water like a retard faggot.

[Anonymous No.14284187]

>>14284176
Was just thinking this. The IQ of this board dropped 30 points since the last time I was here.

[Anonymous No.14284194]

>>14284145
>Be Coca-Cola
>Sell no less than 81 different varieties of water worldwide
>Selling 81 kinds of the same product in different packaging is the most efficient allocation of resources according to the free market

[Anonymous No.14284202]

>>14283934
fpbp

[Anonymous No.14284210]

Evian tastes weird to me desu, rest are the same

[Anonymous No.14284212]

maximizing "efficiency" is bugbrain praxis
if you give a shit about MUH EFFICIENCY then you aren't even human. you're a machine, a little robot with wires and circuits where his soul should be.

[Anonymous No.14284222]

ASSfags have ruined this board.

[Anonymous No.14284223]

>>14284212
That’s a weird way of saying of being a non thinking consumerist faggot is not bug brain

[Anonymous No.14284228]

>>14284194
Nobody said the point of capitalism is efficiency. It tends towards efficiency in price only, which often times has knock on effects in material usage and the like, but efficiency was never the goal.

[Anonymous No.14284239]

>>14284228
Efficiency is the ostensible advantage of capitalism over a planned economy.

If capitalism is in fact completely inefficient then it's worth going back to the drawing board on whether a planned economy could actually be preferable.

[Anonymous No.14284264]

>>14284228
>Knock-on
Do you have a sense of the actual mechanism behind the unintended effects?

[Anonymous No.14284299]

>>14283911
Is there a word for capitalism at the domestic level, with competition occurring even at the local level without worrying about losing out to Walmart at the end? Inb4 national socialism because I'm not advocating shared ownership.

[Anonymous No.14284310]

how much of stupid you should be to not understand that you pay for time, filtering and delivery? Are you expecting the government to produce and deliver water for free, or may be to drive 100km to a closest water source by yourself and filter it by yourself, also fuck people who need soft or mineral water because of health issues?

I swear the water meme is most annoying thing people take from orange social programming website.

>>14284181
have you tried to think that not all places have such machines before trying to offend people who live there?

>>14284167
some brands ARE superior because they use different filtering and cleaning techniques and their water is of different composition. Have you ever tried to read tapwater labels?

What a bunch of edgy binary-world retards.

[Anonymous No.14284330]

>>14284140
tap water isn't free in america. its also filled with poison.

[Anonymous No.14284335]

>>14284299
Small-business ownly capitalism doesn't really exist as a system that would allow small private enterprises would eventually have those grow into big ones.

There is however mutualism which is kind of like that. Mutualism is an anarchist philosophy that isn't clearly socialist or capitalist, it aims for each person to control their own individual means production and have the economy function through a principle of reciprocity (how exactly that would work and to what extent this can include money is fiercely debated). It essentially wants a society of small craftsmen, artists, tradesmen and professionals that won't develop a real bourgeois class.

There's also distributism which is really popular with a lot of left-wing Christian movements, it's much less radical though. It essentially wants the state to ensure widespread distribution of wealth by supporting family businesses and worker co-ops while having strong legal protections against monopolies and the growth of large corporations.

[Anonymous No.14284342]

>>14284310
No I expect the government to nationalise it all and let the 100% tax rate pay for it.

[Anonymous No.14284368]

>>14284335
>an anarchist philosophy
>it aims
>It essentially wants
theory kek

[Anonymous No.14284370]

>>14283911
I've actually been taste testing various high end waters. None of the good ones are in that picture.

Oh, btw, I have a hyper developed body awareness thanks to years of yoga and meditation. Yes, your water matters.

[Anonymous No.14284402]

>>14284310
>have you tried to think that not all places have such machines before trying to offend people who live there?
If people weren’t retarded and getting cucked by your based water bottle companies trying to make an extra shekel then there’d be plenty of demand for RO machines all over America

>some brands ARE superior because they use different filtering and cleaning techniques and their water is of different composition. Have you ever tried to read tapwater labels?
Absolutely bug-brain pilled

[Anonymous No.14284404]

>>14284368
You're on a board about books, which tend to be pretty theoretical
There is in fact an entire board dedicated to politics that you'd probably love

[Anonymous No.14284418]

>>14284228
But tell me, how do we independently verify the efficiency of pricing in capitalism? All I ever get when I talk to business school types is that "the market" results in some prices, and those prices are efficient because they're the result of "the market."

[Anonymous No.14284430]

>>14284418
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eZcPs9z9OA

[Anonymous No.14284431]

Lmao this post made me realise anti-fluride conspiracy is actually a psyop by beverage companies

[Anonymous No.14284438]

>>14284402
no one stops people from buying RO, in fact people in more rural areas are buying filters and get cucked even more than with bottled water because filters are of poor quality and required to be replaced every 1-2 weeks but there's no way to survive without them because bottled water is not easily accessible.

>calls me bug-brain but provides no argument
you're full of shit.

[Anonymous No.14284443]

>>14284431
That doesn’t make any sense. You can easily get an RO filter installed under your sink or just goto most grocery stores where they have RO water machines for dirt cheap.

[Anonymous No.14284444]

>>14284438
I have a filter on my fridge that lasts for 6 months or 500 gallons, whichever comes first.

[Anonymous No.14284446]

>>14284402
only bug brained plebs can't taste the difference between different water sources. keep drinking that fresh tap, bud.

[Anonymous No.14284447]

>>14284430
You must have misunderstood my question. I'm not asking, what are the ludicrous simplifications from which business school types assert market efficiency. I'm asking for an independent verification procedure. Some way that I can satisfy myself, after the fact and in the real world (that is to say, empirically) that prices are efficient.

[Anonymous No.14284449]

>>14284446
Keep buying your $4 a bottle Fiji water, cuck.

[Anonymous No.14284452]

>>14284446
This nigger actually thinks the $5 water tastes better than the $2 water.

[Anonymous No.14284460]

>>14284444
yeah that shitty carbon filter will surely remove all the fluoride, chlorine, chloramine, lead, chromium-6, and VOCs!

[Anonymous No.14284464]

>>14284438
>replacing a RO filter every 1-2 weeks
What in the fuck are you talking about? Your bullshit rationalizations for your cucked brain barely deserve a response.

[Anonymous No.14284469]

>>14284449
i distill my water you nigger
>>14284452
yes. you realize the two dollar water is just "filtered" tap water?

[Anonymous No.14284476]

>>14284460
Yes.

[Anonymous No.14284478]

>>14284452
I dont know the name of it but there is a psychological effect where people who spent more money on something assign greater value to it even was the same product with different packaging

[Anonymous No.14284479]

>>14284469
Yes and that's why I just drink the tap water.

[Anonymous No.14284484]

>>14284469
Less than $1 a gallon

[Anonymous No.14284486]

>>14284476
lol, no.
>>14284479
well enjoy being turned into a braindead feminized faggot.

[Anonymous No.14284493]

>>14284486
My filters have a 4.5 star rating with thousands of reviews and are proven to filter water. Cope, bucko.

[Anonymous No.14284514]

>>14284484
spring water is not immune to chemical leeching from runoff and boomers burying their motor oil when they're done with it, plus you're dealing with a plastic bottle.
>>14284493
good goy

[Anonymous No.14284518]

>>14284486
You know modern first world air is really bad for you? It's full of all kinds of pollutants and chemicals, it's proven that 100% of gay people in the United States reported their feelings after exposure to air.

For the low, low price of $5 I can sell you a 5sq litre bag of 100% pure mountain air that's guaranteed to not make you gay. Be a smart consumer, not like the dumb sheep consuming poorfag (((government air)))

[Anonymous No.14284521]

>plastic bottles
enjoy your testicle cancer

[Anonymous No.14284526]

>>14284518
false equivalence, and yes, city air is bad for you.

[Anonymous No.14284556]

>>14284526
>false equivalence, and yes, it's not a false equivalence
You realise if city air is bad for you then the market for packaged air is just as legit as the market for bottled water if we're to assume tap water is bad for you.

[Anonymous No.14284566]

>>14284556
its not practically possible to switch your air supply without moving location, but its very possible and rather easy to switch to pure water

[Anonymous No.14284589]

>>14284566
That doesn't mean the equivalence is false, just that the barrier to packaged air being a viable market is much higher. If the quality of air were to become intolerably poor then packaged air could be a viable market, as it is in big Chinese cities.

Also most people who drink bottled water don't completely forgo tap water, they just prefer it when possible. Like how in China people don't wear oxygen tanks 24/7 but they will suck air from a can.

[Anonymous No.14284616]

>>14284589
kek wtf world are we even living in at this point

[Anonymous No.14284630]

>>14283911
Weirdly enough I was thinking about this today after seeing an image of a supermarket and it reminded me of going to one a few days ago. There's a good amount of variety but it's really an illusion. It's all shit. It's just sugar and salt most of the time. Junk food is absolutely terrible for you. All the sodas are horrible. Sure, there's choice but it's all garbage so what's the point? Why do we need fifty different brands of sugar water (owned by the same parent company)? Why do we need one hundred different chocolate chip biscuits (owned by same aforementioned parent company)? What the fuck does variety matter if it's all the same fucking thing that does the exact same fucking thing?

[Anonymous No.14284648]

>>14284630
Illusion of choice makes us forgot our enslavement and the absurdity of our world.

[Anonymous No.14284685]

>>14284648
I don't understand how people are fooled by this.

[Anonymous No.14284698]

>>14284685
A combination of being scarily stupid and willfully ignorant. Basically most people are retarded assholes.

[Anonymous No.14284705]

>>14284630
>What the fuck does variety matter if it's all the same fucking thing that does the exact same fucking thing?
i wonder the same thing about late night talk shows

[Anonymous No.14284770]

>>14284705
I want to
I want to be someone else or I'll explode

[Anonymous No.14284782]

>>14283938

It's not a right to create monopolies around something which would be much more efficiently distributed as a non-scarce minimum. Water is functional, unlike drinks like beer or wine which are subject to taste and style, and therefore are scarce due to their originality. The fact that there are "water sommeliers" makes me sick. If somebody ever tells me they have a preference of water brands I automatically assume they are sociopath.

[Anonymous No.14284811]

>>14284782
>If somebody ever tells me they have a preference of water brands I automatically assume they are sociopath.
They are.