Pringles and the fetishization of competition

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Eddie Vol Halen

Eddie Vol Halen

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Pringles are the best potato chip. Nothing else comes close in their class. Why do we waste so many resources making a entire supermarket aisle of inferior chips? Is choice really freedom when competition has made a lot of inferior schlock?

The answer is no.

The fetishization of competition in every aspect of our lives is both ridiculous, destructive and inefficient. What we need is quality and quality based on full price.

Everyone will be screaming at this point MONOPOLY. Rightly so. However, herein lies the power of regulation. Pringles should not be allowed to charge the monopoly price, but rather the proper marginal price. This model worked brilliantly for the most important industries of the 20th century, most importantly electrification. Currently, we all pay monopoly prices through big box collusion in the supermarkets anyway.

Everyone at this point will be screaming INNOVATION. Rightly so. Again, the key is to pour resources dedicated into improving Pringles until the next Pringles 2.0 is discovered. This should be the new model of entrepreneurship.

Competition belongs on the sports fields, not in the economy. It's a long-standing fetish to ensure "labour market flexibility."
 
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This is just as dumb the second time. How could this thread possibly exist twice, years apart?

Somebody has no idea what monopoly pricing is.
 
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Eddie Vol Halen said:
Pringles are the best potato chip. Nothing else comes close in their class. Why do we waste so many resources making a entire supermarket aisle of inferior chips? Is choice really freedom when competition has made a lot of inferior schlock?

The answer is no.

The fetishization of competition in every aspect of our lives is both ridiculous, destructive and inefficient. What we need is quality and quality based on full price.

Everyone will be screaming at this point MONOPOLY. Rightly so. However, herein lies the power of regulation. Pringles should not be allowed to charge the monopoly price, but rather the proper marginal price. This model worked brilliantly for the most important industries of the 20th century, most importantly electrification. Currently, we all pay monopoly prices through big box collusion in the supermarkets anyway.

Everyone at this point will be screaming INNOVATION. Rightly so. Again, the key is to pour resources dedicated into improving Pringles until the next Pringles 2.0 is discovered. This should be the new model of entrepreneurship.

Competition belongs on the sports fields, not in the economy. It's a long-standing fetish to ensure "labour market flexibility."
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Whose resources are you pouring?
 
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A grocery store with nothing but coke, Budweiser, Pringles, etc. Damn that rant is absurd.
 
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Eddie Vol Halen said:
Again, the key is to pour resources dedicated into improving Pringles until the next Pringles 2.0 is discovered. This should be the new model of entrepreneurship.

Competition belongs on the sports fields, not in the economy. It's a long-standing fetish to ensure "labour market flexibility."
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How is Pringles 2.0 not competing with OG Pringles, is what I want to know? Makes no sense.
 
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The chips I buy the most are generic, ruffled, spicy barbecue...why is it so hard to get ruffles in every flavor? That's what I want to know.
 
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allvol123 said:
Actually it isn't. Our stores have countless brands because there is no consensus as to a best, as EVH contends.

That has to be a troll job, it makes no sense on any level.
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This makes no sense.

This is the equivalent of "everyone's a winner." While there are subjective qualities of taste, there are objective measures of quality. The key then is to make BBQ Pringles.

Because of the inefficiency of competition we are saddled with Windows, Lays, and Budweiser. Because of competition Samuel Adams has been on the steady decline since the turn of the millennium. The best beer in the world - Broadside - has limited availability except in the region around the Adnams brewery because of competition.

It's a little more complicated, but competition is the 80% of the 80:20 rule.
 
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Eddie Vol Halen said:
This makes no sense.

This is the equivalent of "everyone's a winner." While there are subjective qualities of taste, there are objective measures of quality. The key then is to make BBQ Pringles.

Because of the inefficiency of competition we are saddled with Windows, Lays, and Budweiser. Because of competition Samuel Adams has been on the steady decline since the turn of the millennium. The best beer in the world - Broadside - has limited availability except in the region around the Adnams brewery because of competition.

It's a little more complicated, but competition is the 80% of the 80:20 rule.
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Anyone able to sustain enough of a profit to continue is a winner.

You are on drugs and/or mentally retarded.
 
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allvol123 said:
What is the incentive to create 2.0 when you have no competition to fend off?
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Plenty. Again, this is the fetishization of the bad economic models we've had for two centuries.

Real innovation is HARD. "Innovating" financial instruments or marketing or branding is easy (and wasteful, inefficient, zero value added to REAL things).

The key is to make resources available for REAL innovation because there is always a creative drive, a drive to be independent. The winners would become the Pringles 2.0. That's not just real innovation but real freedom too.
 
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Eddie Vol Halen said:
Plenty. Again, this is the fetishization of the bad economic models we've had for two centuries.

Real innovation is HARD. "Innovating" financial instruments or marketing or branding is easy (and wasteful, inefficient, zero value added to REAL things).

The key is to make resources available for REAL innovation because there is always a creative drive, a drive to be independent. The winners would become the Pringles 2.0. That's not just real innovation but real freedom too.
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Yes, you creating the rules equals freedom.

As I said before.
 
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allvol123 said:
Anyone able to sustain enough of a profit to continue is a winner.

You are on drugs and/or mentally retarded.
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Absolutely false.

Let's just take your argument back to say.... 2008.

There is no economy today if we actually "follow the model".
 
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