It seems that not everyone understands what problems there are with Kamala's communist program. Let me remind you of a couple of interesting facts from the world of the real economy.

Take, for example, fixed prices for products.

Where does the price of milk come from? A cheerful milkman pulls a cow's tits on a farm, he has expenses, there is a profit margin, there is demand from customers, and all this occurs somewhere at one point, where the price is formed. He is not interested in selling at a cheaper price, because it is not profitable. At a higher price, they start to buy little from him. That's how supply and demand work, and that's why we have everything. Because someone is interested in pulling tits, and someone wants milk on a luxurious mustache.

But here you have a lot of citizens who lack milk. You are running for president, and you are thinking — how can I convince the degenerate electorate to vote for me? I'll fix their milk prices!

How to do it? You can say, "cheerful milkman, you live too well, sell milk cheaper." And he will tell you in response, "who are you? I didn't call you; pull your own boobs then, in your government." And he won't sell milk.

If you still force him to sell milk cheaply, accept the law and at the point of the sheriff's gun he starts doing it, then there will be more people willing to buy cheap milk than there really is milk. After all, otherwise they would have bought earlier, more expensive. And here, finally! Free milk! But it is not profitable to produce it at this price (otherwise the milkman would have already done it, and thus would have satisfied the demand). You will have a deficit.

At the same time, equipment wear, cow wear, gasoline costs for a milk truck — all this does not get cheaper with the introduction of fixed prices. There is frustration and lack of motivation. Why would a milkman engage in an unprofitable business? He'd rather go into an unregulated industry, pick mushrooms and cones. Or even go to Mexico and sell cocaine there. At least the state does not interfere in this business.

Okay, let's try to help the milkman. In order not to let him go around the world with cheap prices, we will not force him to sell an infinite amount of milk, but we will introduce some norms. For example, we will prohibit the sale of a lot of cheap milk in one hand. We will sell 10 discounted liters per day. What will it lead to? You have 15 people willing to buy a liter of milk and only 10 liters for sale. Which one of them should get the milk? Beneficiaries, large families, the one who took the queue in the morning, friends of the milkman's wife, the one who bought the queue from the one who took the queue, the one who asked the beneficiary to buy milk for him according to his quota ... you will have a black market, or non-market mechanisms for obtaining much-needed milk. Because it is necessary, and the concept of "justice" in a world of endless desires but limited resources has very little use. To put it mildly.

Then maybe we can make separate stores with fixed prices, separate the "social" and the usual ones? Well, so that without suffering for those who have money? Then you have arbitration, because you can take "social" milk in one place, take it to another place where the price is market, and sell it there. Milk black market again!

And either it will get worse in the social store, that is, the social milk will be filthy, but for normal money it will be normal. Or you will have to ban the free circulation of milk and impose liability for speculation. Otherwise, money will flow through milk from state-owned social stores to "market" stores, and someone will "warm their hands on it."

Well, okay, maybe we won't legislatively limit the price of milk and commit repressions, but will subsidize the difference from the budget? Will citizens buy milk for 50 cents, at a market price of 100 cents, and will we report half to the milkmen from the budget?
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And where can I get so much money in the budget? Our budget is generally in deficit, the external debt is huge, but that's okay. We'll print more money. And we will "report this money to the citizens for milk" (and steal a little, about a third).
The printing press will increase the amount of money in the economy, which we will throw in there ourselves. The printed money distributed to the milkmen as "compensation" for low prices, in fact, came "out of thin air." And further from the milkmen, they will go to salaries, expenses, for the purchase of new cows, for example. And we have the same number of cows on sale (how do they differ from milk?), and there is more money in the economy. And everyone needs more milk (cheap). Than eating cows. Cows are rising in price. Everything increases in price — inflation occurs.

Inflation occurs for those citizens who do not need milk at all, and for those who have nothing to do with the dairy industry at all — inflation will hit them too. Everything will become more expensive for them, gasoline, bread, real estate, and education. We will not only subsidize milk, but also many other things that are very important and necessary. It turns out that in order to supply citizens with cheap milk, we still take money from THEIR POCKET for this. Nothing is taken out of thin air.

What is the solution to the problem of the lack of cheap milk? It is, in fact, only one thing. Someone has to go without milk. It is impossible to fix prices and provide everyone with free "something". Temporarily, of course, it is possible. But then everything will go according to a well—known place (see the USSR, Venezuela, Argentina - everywhere it's inflation, either the black market and the deficit, or all together).

Okay, you're going to write to me now that I'm a fucking capitalist and that I'm not ready to provide citizens with at least cheap milk. I agree — let's say humanity can provide milk for everyone. But! Today everyone has milk at a fixed price, and tomorrow everyone already wants to have high-quality meat at a fixed price. Then fashionable jeans (3 pairs). Then unlimited Internet. Then a Mercedes-Benz convertible. Human desires have no end. In principle, we cannot be satisfied with what everyone has. Our brain gives us "success hormones" only when we have something that others do not have. Here follows a lecture on motivation and evolution, for another hour (we will omit it). Just know that a person wants the best for himself. Somewhere it's a loaf of bread and a jug of wine in the middle of burning Rome, and somewhere it's a private yacht on the Cote d'Azur.

The concept of "living decently" has shifted over the past hundred years from hot water once a week to the opportunity to fly a thousand kilometers on a big iron bird just "to relax." No, seriously, this is already being declared as an inalienable human right, parliamentarians will not let you lie. They are already speculating about this in their populism.

Thus, nothing important for people (they always care about what they don't have) will be "fixed" and "secured". So that it is absolutely for everyone. This is sick nonsense.

This is not to say that inequality should not be fought, and it is not necessary to help those who have less or who are unlucky. This means that it will not work to defeat the laws of economics, and the difference in consumption is the norm, the basis and an integral part of people's lives.

Attempts to make communism are needed by political forces who want to promise morons an obviously impossible amount of benefits in order to get their votes/ bayonets, and then take power and do well first of all for themselves, that is, the politburo of the diplomatic staff. Therefore, you take the current needs of people, take a louder slogan and promise to do well for everyone.
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The real way to make everyone feel good is to blow away the bubble, that is, to make everyone temporarily feel bad, bring down markets, bankrupt zombie companies that do not survive without loans, and lead the country through a recession, then get the next 20-30 years of prosperity. But who will do this in the USA? We must win elections, at any cost. And citizens are already so degraded that it is possible to communicate fixed prices. It won't get any worse.

By @auantonov

@ConflictChronicles