Question

Where do you intervene in a cycle?

Answer 1

Those are two theories….let me give you another. Profit. Profit drives the economy and is what determines what is made. Before you even develop a product you have tested to see what will and will not see and whom will and will not buy it and even for what amount of money. A profit margin is determined long before a product ever even hits the market. If something isn’t thought to be able to produce a good profit for share holders it is scraped for development. Even as an artist I test the market and quickly determine what will and will not sell and what the market will bear in terms of price. I know what amount of money makes me break even and exactly what amount I have to sell at to make a profit. As an example: If I wanted an even bigger profit than I’d have to find cheap labor to make aspects or all of my product quickly or I’d have to find cheap substitutions for elements of my product that I don’t think people will notice. Now that is exactly what American Corporations do….in order to make a profit for a select few they ship jobs that could have been kept in the US out to third world countries and they use inferior products. And we really DON’t make collective decisions on these things. Mass marketing determines these things.