Orange County Homeless Thread (Sacramento: restaurant, pricing, activities)

[TCROX]

Yep- lets let 'em wander around unsupervised like dirty jerry wants... LOTS more OT $$$$ for police and fire fighters gonna be handed out this summer!!
https://www.ocregister.com/2018/04/1...-talbert-park/

[CaliRestoration]

Originally Posted by pittsflyer

We live in a world now where there are ware houses full of goods and they are trickled out in strategic fasion to artificially inflate prices, thats not star trek thats today. All it would take is massive inventory taxes, import taxes etc in order to free up that value to everyone else

Are you kidding?

Warehouses full of goods that are trickled out to inflate prices?

Forgetting the fact that only works in a market where the producer of the good has a monopoly or virtual monopoly, what you're describing is not how a normal profit seeking firm would ever operate unless they were looking to go bankrupt.

Artificial scarcity is a very rare occurrence (diamonds for instance) and the majority of the market does not engage in it because competitive pressure would soon push that firm out of business since it would in short order have no customers.

[k81689]

A selfish hypocrite asks a homeless "Other than donating money to charity to provide you free food and services, how can I help?"

The homeless reply "You, selfish hypocrite invite me to your place and make me homeless-less. Stop creating problems to other people."

[TCROX]

I think you left off
" then I'll stab you to death, sell your valuables for drug and booze money, invite my buddies over to party like its 2009-2018, burn your house down and then walk away completely stoned and/or flying on meth and with complete impunity "
........if I'm wrong, please accept my apologies .... the rest was so obvious to most of us that I thought maybe it was just a simple oversight on your part.

[LuvSouthOC]

Originally Posted by CaliRestoration

Are you kidding?

Warehouses full of goods that are trickled out to inflate prices?

Forgetting the fact that only works in a market where the producer of the good has a monopoly or virtual monopoly, what you're describing is not how a normal profit seeking firm would ever operate unless they were looking to go bankrupt.

Artificial scarcity is a very rare occurrence (diamonds for instance) and the majority of the market does not engage in it because competitive pressure would soon push that firm out of business since it would in short order have no customers.

Not to mention that most goods are cheap as hell in the United States largely because China keeps its currency artificially low.

[pittsflyer]

Originally Posted by LuvSouthOC

Not to mention that most goods are cheap as hell in the United States largely because China keeps its currency artificially low.

And alot of people now need those cheap goods after their real wages have been reduced by inflation or they were laid off.

I think we are at a tipping point and if trump does not completely fix it in the next 3 years (ie good jobs for most), we will have socialism. Very few are going to continue to tolerate the massive wealth inequality even if it means the fall of the USA. Too much greed for people to stomach anymore.

[pittsflyer]

Originally Posted by CaliRestoration

Are you kidding?

Warehouses full of goods that are trickled out to inflate prices?

Forgetting the fact that only works in a market where the producer of the good has a monopoly or virtual monopoly, what you're describing is not how a normal profit seeking firm would ever operate unless they were looking to go bankrupt.

Artificial scarcity is a very rare occurrence (diamonds for instance) and the majority of the market does not engage in it because competitive pressure would soon push that firm out of business since it would in short order have no customers.

Yet diamonds still have a lot of customers and the multiple companies involved manage to keep tight wraps on the commodity .....

I suspect this is done with LOTS of other stuff we are simply unaware of. How many iphones do you think are stacked up in a ware house somewhere, yet they are $900 a piece .....

[Finper]

I haven't been there in person to check it out but I heard the SA civic center has been cleared out of all the homeless. If it's true..... finally

[Rakin]

Originally Posted by TCROX

I think you left off
" then I'll stab you to death, sell your valuables for drug and booze money, invite my buddies over to party like its 2009-2018, burn your house down and then walk away completely stoned and/or flying on meth and with complete impunity "
........if I'm wrong, please accept my apologies .... the rest was so obvious to most of us that I thought maybe it was just a simple oversight on your part.

I've wondered if the all you can eat Govt free opiate program might work. Just have the body wagon pick up the corpse's every morning.

[ryanst530]

Originally Posted by SportyandMisty

Instead of donating food, it would be better to donate suitcases & bus tickets to somewhere out of state. Preferably, Washington DC.

Lmao, now that really would be hilarious, and probably very effective.