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commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day agoyour graph would go up quicker if all vegetarians and vegans went back to eating meat,
as i can’t prove a counterfactual, i wouldn’t make any such claim. i have no reason to believe that production could increase any faster.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I mean I can’t convince you that demand affects supply if you simply don’t think they are related.
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
i think supply creates its own demand, but i don’t believe there is any causal mechanism by which choosing to buy something causes more of it to be produced, nor that production causes others to purchase it.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
How can supply create demand while saying production doesnt cause demand in the same paragraph?
Do you have some separate definition for supply and production I’m missing?
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
i’m saying it’s not causal or, at least, it requires more than simply making a thing for it to be bought by someone. fidget spinners are a great example. lots were made with no real understanding of their potential market. some were sold just because it’s a cheap toy but it could easily have been any other similarly priced toy. the production created its own demand there, but not enough to empty every fidget spinner from a warehouse. so some other mechanism must be at play besides production (advertising, for instance). regardless, it certainly can’t be the case that demand actually caused all those fidget spinners to have been produced.