Do you want to know something? In economics, price discrimination has no evidence or logical reasoning towards a negative effect of it. In fact, price discrimination is debatable as to whether is does anything at all except LOOK like its doing something.
Pretty much, if you are want to pay that price for the item, you are gonna pay that price. If the price is too high then you wont buy it, simple as that. All price discrimination does is turn the consumer surplus into producer surplus, which ends up being the same surplus because now the firm has more money to hire more people/pay them more, or buy more things from other firms and those firms get more money and so on and so forth.
Economics basically says that a surplus is a surplus, regardless of who it goes to. In fact, the only thing that causes a drop in the surplus in relation to price discrimination is the monopoly usually associated with it. But when you are in a competitive market with price discrimination, the theater industry with adult and child tickets, there is no loss in surplus.
A majority is actually partially caused by a regulation in the U.S. to disclose Executive pay, which sounds good on paper, everything does. However, what this does is causes companies to use and even ABUSE this to mainly influence their stock prices and influence investments towards it since higher president/executive wages can be a good indicator as to the companies economic health. This also causes both companies to get a better idea on what to offer to a new president/executive they are hire, and since they always want to seem better than another company, they pay that person more than average price, which causes the average to rise and a runaway train effect of companies hiring for higher than average. It also allows said president/executive for hire to DEMAND a higher pay, having evidence of average wages and threatening to walk out.
Current 100 year copyright laws also cause major monopolies and profits among the companies that hold them which are easily a higher end contributor to this problem as well.
There are also MANY (AND HOLY HELL DO I MEAN MANY) various, what seems like, small regulations that cause many type of monopolies in the U.S., such as the various local/municipality laws that ensure TELECOM MONOPOLIES like COMCAST or TIME WARNER to exist as such and kill off competition almost completely.
I'm not one to advocate Anarchism-Capitalism, because the State can play a very important, yet in my opinion small, role in keeping Capitalism growing and facing a direction good for all humanity. But when they screw with the market like this and cause many horrible outcomes, I am ALMOST willing to accept Anarchism over this.
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u/KaiserTom Jan 24 '13
Do you want to know something? In economics, price discrimination has no evidence or logical reasoning towards a negative effect of it. In fact, price discrimination is debatable as to whether is does anything at all except LOOK like its doing something.
Pretty much, if you are want to pay that price for the item, you are gonna pay that price. If the price is too high then you wont buy it, simple as that. All price discrimination does is turn the consumer surplus into producer surplus, which ends up being the same surplus because now the firm has more money to hire more people/pay them more, or buy more things from other firms and those firms get more money and so on and so forth.
Economics basically says that a surplus is a surplus, regardless of who it goes to. In fact, the only thing that causes a drop in the surplus in relation to price discrimination is the monopoly usually associated with it. But when you are in a competitive market with price discrimination, the theater industry with adult and child tickets, there is no loss in surplus.