Harry Pollard wrote:
[snip]
> At the height of the Mad Cow scare in England, Sainsburys had a mass of
> beef unsold. So, they had a beef sale with 50% off and the shelves cleared.
[snip]
This seems to me to be a fine parable/symbol of the
mindless of the "invisible hand".
It reminds me of a cartoon from an old Zap comic book:
A man goes into a cheap diner -- what we in America
call a "greasy spoon" --, and the man orders a hamburger.
All the utensils (knives, forks, etc.) attack the man
to try to protect the poor defenseless innocent hamburger
(i.e., to protect it against threatened death by being eaten).
The utensils chase the man out the door and he runs for
his life! The man runs and runs, with the vigilante
utensils in hot pursuit! Suddenly, the man gets a *bright idea*:
He runs back into the diner and orders ANOTHER HAMBURGER!
God save the Queen's brain cells!
--
Childrearing is the process of making us blind to the obvious.
I woke up this morning to a realization about the "free markets":
No market is free in which persons feel under economic
pressure to participate (e.g. to "earn a living").
+\brad mccormick
--
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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