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> Companies cannot set prices arbitrarily

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Edit: how are you downvoting me? Go look at corporate profit margins now, 10 years ago, and 40 years ago.

If you believe you can hand wave with simplified BS like "Supply and Demand" you probably have some heavy reading on price elasticity to catch up on.





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Then why are profit margins bigger? Supply and demand as the reason for profit percentage increasing margin makes no sense. I’d be interested in how you’d debate that.

> Supply and demand as the reason for profit percentage increasing margin makes no sense. I’d be interested in how you’d debate that.

That was never my argument. The commenter I responded to edited his comment to add those points after I replied. This was his comment before:

> Companies cannot set prices arbitrarily

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That is pretty obvious from where it says “Edit:”, what isn’t obvious is how Supply and Demand prevents companies from setting prices arbitrarily. Which is and always was what your comment said.



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