Practical economics - part 1

You’re trying to create a clever analogy, but it’s done so poorly. You fail to implement key factors in the supposed “economic” fictional situation you created.

In the case of who “You” represent yourself to be. “You” would be akin to an enormous business conglomerate. Such as Amazon. Where people are allowed to sell their product while using “Your” platform. Generating the largest marketplace in the world.

Meanwhile “Patel” represents a small mom and pop shop.

“Patel” sells on your platform but tells you that you can not take your dues of “50%” owed to you for selling in your Amazon marketplace. And that they should take full profit from you, while attempting at monopolizing a product on your platform. And that it will remain at “0%” because for some reason they believe they can dictate to you. The owner of the largest marketplace in the world.

Meanwhile, telling you that if you decide to sell a product in their mom and pop shop. With a very small marketplace. That virtually earns you very little customers. They then state to you the financial fee for using the “Patel” marketplace. Is a “100%” meaning that you will earn exactly $0 revenue. From the very small marketplace you have been doing a huge favor for this whole time.

This is the correct and proper version of an analogy on what’s taking place.

The fact that you don’t understand basic and simple math and yet you’re in your 40’s or at the very least, approaching it. Is another testament to how the scholastic system has failed people.

And to save on my own time I didn’t do a complete and more thorough example. I would still have to keep the base of the example o have while going into more details. But if people can’t figure out simple math with this example then there’s no hope for them.

Bob is smaller but Punches Terrance in the face every day for decades . Terrance is bigger and takes the abuse for years because he knows how small Bob is, but eventually gets fed up of Bob’s behavior and then finally says he’s going to reciprocate and punch Bob back. Bob exclaims how dare Terrance do that, and is mad at Terrance. Claiming Terrance is a bully, and remarks how Terrance wants to start a war with him.

Who is in the wrong here?

Democrat left leaning Liberals will say Terrance is in the wrong. Should not protect himself, or his own well being. And instead should submit to Bob’s daily gaslighting and abuse.

Republican right leaning Conservatives will say Bob is in the wrong and shouldn’t have been abusing Terrance who had been being kind to him for years.

This is the difference between people and how their brains work.

One type supports abuse. The other calls it out for what it is.

I did it with not only one, but two succinct analogies. You people need to learn not only basic math. But what basic self respect looks like.

The biggest flaw in your analogy is that you behave and portray the two owners/suppliers as if they are on equal footing. When they are not.

America is the largest consumer marketplace in the world. Meaning that because they’ve blocked our products for so long already with tariffs. Any attempt at increasing tariffs against us would never even harm us as we barely sell to sources outside of America.

But since they have been given extremely low, to virtually zero tariffs on all of their products for so long. Selling in America was essentially cheaper than even selling in their own country. And since America has more buyers per capita than sellers. Them being tariffed is an unsustainable battle they can not win.

It’s why the entire EU has already conceded in defeat and is trying to come to the table for zero for zero tariffs. And why eventually everyone else will follow suit with similar deals being made.

If your consumer/customer base is 80-90% American and suddenly your country is going to be held to a 25-50% tariff with the possibility of increasing reciprocally. Because you keep attempting to raise it. Which will only raise it to the exact point you raised it against the country you primarily sell in. You are bound to have all your businesses collapse within a year or 2. As it is completely unsustainable.

The fact that you people need to have your hand held and explained on how this all works. And who has more bargaining power at the table is just baffling to me.

It’s like a short skinny computer gamer talking about doing an MMA match with a man who won the champion title of a worlds strongest man competition.

They are not on equal footing. And one is obviously going to lose. And their big talks about retaliation or winning were all bluffs to begin with.