Anti-Capitalist Sentiment (with some morality)

[CoccoBill]

Banana, you're talking about something completely different than I am. I'm not interested in figuring out the best business strategy for a school administrator, I'm interested in the incentives created by a market for businesses to improve their profitability. Each of those options come with certain expenses, EV, risk etc. and it seems to me like they can roughly put in 4 categories, of which the "make great products" option seems the least favorable to the businesses.

[BananaStand]

Banana, you're talking about something completely different than I am.

No, I'm not.

You're making totally nonsensical presumptions about the cause and effects of various business decisions. Your assumption about which actions will affect quality or price, in which direction, are very very poorly thought through.

it's entirely possible, and actually quite common, for a business to cut cost and also improve quality by doing so.

It's also entirely possible, and actually quite common, for a business to increase costs (marketing and product development) without increasing price.

You whole argument depends on completely ignoring those entirely plausible and quite common outcomes.

[CoccoBill]

No, I'm not.

You're making totally nonsensical presumptions about the cause and effects of various business decisions.

*whoosh*