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⌈ Secret Post #6062 ⌋

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["The Carnival of the Animals" by Camille Saint-Saëns]

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Obviously, people shouldn't let produce go to waste. Of course I'm not advocating that. But what I am saying is that it should be easy for small businesses to stay in business. Small businesses should not have to operate at the maximum peak of efficiency to stay open. That doesn't mean that they should waste food, obviously. But basically, for any given business, there is some way of running that business that is the most profitable.

If you want to open a restaurant in a given town, there's an optimal way to run that restaurant - there's a specific combination of cuisine, menu, style of cooking, hours, decor, atmosphere, service, etc that will bring you the most profit. And what I'm saying is that it's bad to arrange a socio-economic system that requires businesses to operate as close to maximum efficiency as possible. It is spiritually bad and it is boring.

Give you another example: bookstores. I would personally much rather live in a world where someone can own a bookshop and stock it with books that they are passionate about and they think other people can be passionate about, even if those books aren't as new or as well-known or as popular. But that is clearly not the most efficient way to run a bookstore. It is an abysmally bad way to run a bookstore from a business point of view. I think it should be economically feasible for bookstores to stay open doing that anyway, even if it's not the most economically effective way of selling books, because it's better.

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If someone has the resources to treat a business as their own passion project, fine. Go ahead. But returning to the whole point of this thread, don't complain that you don't make enough money when you can't be bothered to be open. Don't expect US to subsidize your hobby.

Okay, so who do you think should pay to keep those bookstores in business? Because I sure as hell don't want my taxes funding something like that.

Nope, there is no should about it. If a store can sell enough product to make a profit over its costs than it may succeed. Some stores can do that with irregular business practices because they are filling a niche in the market. Some cannot. Saying that a store 'should' be able to stay open with irregular business practices is saying that consumers should spend their money at stores that provide a substandard experience for them, solely to keep them open. Which is ridiculous.

In your bookstore example, random people off the street would be expected to buy books they do not like or want to keep your 'passionate' bookstore owner afloat, if there otherwise was not a market for what they wanted to sell. Even if those customers actually wanted other books, books that the bookstore owner wasn't passionate about so didn't stock. Even if another bookstore stocked the books those customers really wanted. How is that okay?

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