the current business model for many items works via misdirection: reduce the volume in the container, but leave the price as is. Or make minuscule but unimportant improvements, cover it with flash ads, then jack the price past reason.
Yeah, because the total US economy is the same size as it was in 1800. I’m tired of seeing / hearing the myth that the “rich” (of the moment) only have wealth because they took it from the poor (at the moment). Total BS (in a free market economy).
B UTTONS over 4 years ago
Now you did it Ernie. The politicians are raising all taxes by 3.14159%
Jeff0811 over 4 years ago
What they should do is just print more money. (A little money printing humor there.)
MoeJoe over 4 years ago
You make the pie half the size and double the price! That’s how you help the economy…. People will have to buy twice as much as before
patiodragon over 4 years ago
Note: Hurricanes and floods don’t help either! Please see the “Broken Window Fallacy”.
comixbomix over 4 years ago
Enough, with these half-baked economic theories!
1953Baby over 4 years ago
Oh, let’s not even go there. . .
InTraining Premium Member over 4 years ago
but Frank, everyone wants a bigger slice of the pie…! This way they can get it without having to work any harder… “Key Lime please….!”
Zen-of-Zinfandel over 4 years ago
Ernie’s fillings are hurt.
The Brooklyn Accent Premium Member over 4 years ago
But if you can cut it into more slices, you incur Divine beneficence.
“Blessed are the piece-makers.”
micromos over 4 years ago
Actually, he is.
Ed The Red Premium Member over 4 years ago
“Make the pie higher! Put food on your family.” — George W. Bush
Geophyzz over 4 years ago
But there is no down-side to more pie – make mine apple.
sandpiper over 4 years ago
the current business model for many items works via misdirection: reduce the volume in the container, but leave the price as is. Or make minuscule but unimportant improvements, cover it with flash ads, then jack the price past reason.
dwpbike over 4 years ago
The top one percent of the usual income distribution holds over $25 trillion in wealth, which exceeds the wealth of the bottom 80 percent
j.l.farmer over 4 years ago
ya ha, the bigger the pie, the more slices, the more the money for the bigger pie.
gammaguy over 4 years ago
Depends on whose economy they’re talking about.
dnotkin Premium Member over 4 years ago
Yeah, because the total US economy is the same size as it was in 1800. I’m tired of seeing / hearing the myth that the “rich” (of the moment) only have wealth because they took it from the poor (at the moment). Total BS (in a free market economy).