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For the Chinese New Year, everyone wants peace and happiness, and to catch up with this epidemic, no one expected that the situation would change in such a few days.
In Shandong, many villages have already dispatched their staff to guard the village entrance. People outside the village can hardly get in.
In this case, it is inevitable that the supply chain of various materials will be affected.
I went to a nearby supermarket to buy some noodles and vegetables this morning, and talked briefly with the supermarket owner. The purchase of vegetables has been affected. Now the products are sold in stock, and the purchase is no longer good.
Visit the large supermarket, but the snap-up has not yet appeared. There are many people in the vegetable area who queue up and buy noodles. The instant noodles will be empty soon after replenishment.
I also bought some spares, and I do n’t feel so panic. Just like the supermarket owner said, the supply of vegetables is not enough. Needless to say, half a month, the food in the house is almost eaten within a week, everyone will suffer No more.
Even if the blockade is tight, the basic supply will definitely be there, but the price will definitely go up.
But at this time I would prefer it to be a bit more expensive. The reason is simple. Forcibly suppressing the price is not allowed to rise. Some people think it is a good thing, but in fact it is very likely that you can’t buy it with money.
For many people, vegetables and food are more important than masks most of the time. The mask does not allow the logic of price increases, and it is easy to be transplanted to these necessities of life.
Whether it is the small supermarket I often go to or the big supermarket nearby, there are still some stocks of goods years ago. These goods are sold out, and if they foresee that costs and profits cannot be covered by price increases, then the most likely action they will take is to stop buying.
Not to mention that the purchase cost may increase, and the risk of infection faced by purchase is much higher than that of staying at home. Without sufficient profit motive, we cannot require everyone to be alive.
Analysis of economics does not simply support price increases. The complete statement should be based on the principles of property rights and voluntariness, and let people decide for themselves.
Raising prices is an option. Donating prices or even giving away for free is also an option. As long as there is no coercion between these choices, it can be said that there are no problems and no victims.
As a science of economics, it should be said that its analysis is neutral. As for how to choose, it is a personal issue.
For example, in the face of whether the price of masks should increase, economic analysis only tries to tell people that if prices are allowed to increase, more supplies will appear and more people’s needs will be met.
If prices are forcibly not allowed, there will be artificial shortages and insufficient supply, and many people may not have the money to buy them.
Price is determined not only by supply and demand, but also by supply and demand. Price is the carrier of market information. Forcibly suppressing price is to distort the signal. Eliminating the price altogether killed the messenger.
A person with a fever who sees his body temperature is high and then smashes the thermometer, which is useless to the fever itself.
Science is trying to help us predict what may happen. At the crossroads of choice, under the opinion of most people, we still choose another way of forcing prices up. At this time, the laws of science have not failed, but they will There is another situation.
Sometimes, whether we have the correct scientific law and whether we are willing to accept it, to a certain extent, it also determines what choices we make.
Just tonight in several groups, a man was spreading a anger at a pharmacy selling a mask for 30 yuan, and he asked the pharmacy for help. In addition, it is said that some pharmacies were smashed for selling N95 masks for 40 yuan, and some pharmacies were investigated and punished by the market supervision department.
Does this behavior increase the supply of masks? Actually not, because where there are masks, facing such an environment of public opinion, I am afraid it is more difficult to be a human.
The way to increase supply is not to smash and swear, but to use Weibo as the two users to express their urgent needs by price.
If you really need it, you can increase the price; if you don’t need it, you can wait.
Increasing supply does not necessarily increase from the source of production. Rising prices will allow those intentional or unintentional hoarding to be supplied to the market. This efficiency is faster and more efficient than stimulating production.
Compared to those who scold and smash drugstores, these two users who are willing to bid and pay high prices on Weibo are obviously more peaceful and friendly.
On the other hand, when the crisis is in urgent need, the relatively high price can be paid, which shows that in peacetime, we pay more attention to wealth accumulation and reserves. Therefore, in peacetime, do not catch blind at critical moments.
The pharmacy smashed and smashed. Upon inspection by the Drug Administration, the price of a mask for 40 yuan was 30.
People who talk about the country’s troubles before they see the purchase price will probably applaud the smashing of the store; after seeing the purchase price, they will probably pass by with a smile, and there may not be any reflection.
As stated in the title of this article, some mischief can be avoided, provided that we have a complete understanding of the logical chain of these matters, and not just focus on the price increase.
These correct economic logics are, on the one hand, not only the revealing of the causality of things, but also the universal principle applicable to all.
You hit someone’s store today because of a price increase. You can’t guarantee that someone will hit your store tomorrow because of a price increase.
The person who smashed the pharmacy, and opened a pharmacy by himself, didn’t want to be smashed, did he?
To avoid this kind of mischief, what we need most is to learn correct logical analysis first, rather than to easily carry the banner of morality.
Learn economics and eliminate anger. Let us live more peacefully.
This article is from WeChat public account: Zhang Yezhi (ID: zi-liu-di) , author: Zhang is the