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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
If that lawnmower was going to earn you an additional $75,000 in revenue each year, don't you think you might be willing to pay more than $500 for it?
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Sure. There are $500 lawnmowers that will bring in lots of revenue, and they tend to sell for $500 or much more.
Then there are flawed, $150 lawnmowers that won't do that. Yet they still get put on sale for $500. Those are the lawmowers that are causing the problem. They won't accept $200 for them even if on a true free market that would be considered a good deal.
Another way of looking at it...
In a true capitalist free market, if the lawmower will really bring in $75K in revenue it will get sold at a high price.
However in the OOTP 'market many $150 lawnmowers that WON'T bring in $75K in additional revenue are put on sale for $500 NOT because it is worth that much, but because the pool of available funds for lawnmowers is so large.
So yeah... and I say this only partly tongue in cheek... OOTP has a socialist system that manipulates free agent demands to force the redistribution of wealth.
Or forget about lawnmowers for a minute... is Nick Punto worth $15 mil per season just because the Dodgers have that much money to spend? Because if OOTP ran MLB that's what he would be asking for.