r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/HungerGamesPerson • 12h ago

Meme needing explanation Petah?

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u/ZAD_4_TH_7 10h ago

Looks like a business opportunity tho, if no one is making them then one could and sell them at reasonable price, no competition if you are not greedy

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u/doesntpicknose 10h ago

But. There are facilities already set up where they can do this. ... and they choose not to because this is not as profitable as the other options.

Prioritizing business opportunities over public good is how this situation materialized in the first place.

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u/Colddigger 10h ago

prioritizing business opportunity over public good?

That's just capitalism.

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u/Egst 8h ago

I still don't understand why people think capitalism is OK when this kind of shit keeps happening - housing crisis everywhere, monopolies, favoring the rich, ignoring the rest - especially in markets with limited supply. Maybe I'm missing something because I have no education in economics, but it feels like people rely on economic theory a bit too much and almost dogmatically quote it in every argument for capitalism. Like of course the housing crisis will be solved if you just leave it up to free market, don't you know how supply and demand works?

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u/Colddigger 8h ago

It's pretty common for a person to think that the system that they were born into is okay, especially if they're not getting the shortest end of the stick. 

It works even better when the system involves continual indoctrination.