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what advice was great when you first heard it, but has aged like milk since then?

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If people stopped buying milk at current levels, then it would not be produced at current levels. The dozens of actors and factors would all be a part of that decrease. The market would shrink, not dissappear necessarily.
- Every decreased market that ever existed should be sufficient. Fondue pots and miter boxes should get you there.
  
  that's not a test. it's a survey. I'm looking for a test for your theory. I think it is undisprovable.
  
  all the people involved in those markets were making decisions distinct from the people making decisions in the milk market. I dont think we can find anything so conclusive.
  
  Here's the test, everyone stops buying milk. Go.
  
  did it work?
  
  You still don't understand basic markets, huh. That's unfortunate.
  
  I understand that markets are populated by irrational actors.
  
  That's not relevant. This issue is more basic than that. It's the most basic.
  Out of morbid curiosity. Hypotheticaly, why or how do you think a producer would continue to operate at full scale with no buyers?
  
  I'm not going to believe something without evidence. your hand waiving is not evidence, and historical data about irrational actors is not predictive about the future of those same markets. it can't be reliable evidence about the future in a separate market.
  
  @remindme@mstdn.social 1 month
  
  The events were that demand decreased. Yes, demand could decrease in the milk market. Whether or not it will is a separate question. They are different in that the market decreased in the former and not the latter.
  
  to be clear, you have made an assertion without evidence. a claim made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. I don't believe you, and no one should.
  
  think people are going to produce rotting milk forever without a customer base for no reason.
  I didn't say that. you asserted the opposite, though, and I pointed out you can't support your claim.
  
  So you don't think milk will be produced without the demand to support it. Tight. We're in agreement. Salut.

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