Temp banned...

**Effrenat** · 2007-10-20 18:56

Originally Posted by evilpaul

Originally Posted by ringthree

Originally Posted by evilpaul

So, buying a bunch of something for the "wrong reason" and calling that "anti-market" makes it unethical or immoral?

Price Manipulation: If a person lowers their prices and somebody doesn't like it, then it's predatory-pricing. If they raise them and somebody doesn't like it, then it's price-gouging.

All "price manipulation" laws do is criminalize an aspect of the basic workings of reality so that "me! me! me!" crybabies can feel like they're getting "justice" from politicians who are always looking for some "crisis" to intervene in to look important and useful. "Price manipulation" is specifically the crybabies run to the politicians and demand their Right to Buy at Yesterday's Prices be protected. Which isn't a right at all.

How people can look at a bunch of voluntary, mutually beneficial transactions between buyers and sellers of some good or service and come up with a crime from is beyond me. Well, not really. Puritan-types have been doing it for centuries and it accounts for most of the problems in the world.

P.S. In a game where SE basically created a player run economy and has NPCs who sell single Remedies for 22k, I'd say that suspending people for buying and selling shit off the AH is pretty fucking dumb.

Seriously, I don't think I have ever read a more completely uninformed string of babble ever. You literally said nothing, and you really know nothing about the term price manipulations or economics in general.

You also might want to look up the definition of collusion while you are looking up price manipulation, instead of just making up your own completely random definition.

What I've fogotten about economics is more than you know. Seriously:

. Keep believing your statist, Keynesian, crybaby garbage, it'll serve those better informed around you quite well.

I just started my first real economics class in college and so far I've learned that price manipulation is when collusion takes place and companies raise/lower the price all together and do this knowingly before hand.
Like in the example of a post a few above me where it looks like one or more person is using multiple accounts to increase the price( or so it seems).

I guess maybe I'm just new to economics, this isn't meant to sound like I'm trying to disprove your statement or mock you in any way what-so-ever, just as a way for me to learn from the other side of economics (maybe idk).

**Volken** · 2007-10-20 19:04

lol nerd battle

**Plow** · 2007-10-20 19:08