• spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
    2·
    2か月前

    you’re overcomplicating it. it’s about profit, period. and different market categories will eke out that profit in different ways.

    for example, medical fields force profits not by attractivity, but by hiding cost behind opaque “insurance” structures.

    • tormeh@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      2か月前

      You’re not wrong; highly regulated markets like medicine can be extremely dysfunctional. But lemonade is not medicine, so I feel like you’re moving the goalposts a bit here.

      • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
        1·
        2か月前

        using a metaphor to analyze its subject is actually pretty common but whatever