Oriphiel

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DwnWthVwls

From my small amount of business education and experience with video game economies, undercutting is NOT good for the economy. It only works because they're the only ones doing it. That's not a good business model.

Not discrediting some of the other interesting stuff in the article like the barcodes, but the basic ideology of undercutting is bad.

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Oriphiel

Oh please. We all know what we learned from video games; when the economy goes south you just do this and then start over:

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DwnWthVwls

Actually economies in large scale RPGs do have some realistic qualities about them. I can't speak for Sim City, I'm talking games with player driven economies with actual supply and demand.

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Carpe Mortem

I want to be a traveling accountant at sea, offering my financial services to sailors, while my boyfriend/husband/whatever he is at the time works as a mobile boat mechanic.

Everyone tells me I'm nuts but that's the dream, man. Find a way to live feasibly on a boat. Or in an RV, but preferably a boat. I don't like planting roots.

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Chula Vista

Ever seen the show Below Deck? Jebus, I could live forever on that boat.

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John Wilkes Booth

are you rating the business in terms of its affect on the economy?
because that's not what i meant by business model. businesses are there to make money not save the world

DwnWthVwls

Good business models don't **** up the economy.. Your logic is assbackwards. Businesses make the most money in a thriving economy so it's counter-productive for them to be a destructive force. It just happened to work for Walmart because they did it first.

I'm not surprised, you seem to take this sort of "good for me than it's good" approach about a lot of things. You have this logic where you think using bandaids on amputees is good.

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John Wilkes Booth

so the alternative is we should opt to pay more out of some sort of principle? clearly people aren't going to do that on a scale that will tip the power into mom & pop's favor so in the end the better business won imo. you can hate all you want but you can't argue with results.

Chula Vista

There's a balance man. Uber profits at the expense of treating your employees like **** is not a good thing. WalMart could keep the same prices and just not put so much of the profits into their pockets. Put some of it back into their business (employee benefits, etc.)

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and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”