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[gadders]

I heard an economist once say that "The best cure for high prices is high prices." i.e. - when prices get that high, new people enter the market and the price drops. Or people lower their prices to try and capture market share.

[ceejayoz → gadders]

Unless, of course, you've got a monopoly/oligopoly and a bunch of barriers to entry.

I'm under little illusion my cell phone bill is ever going to go down.

[titzer → gadders]

Of all branches of mathematics, science, and engineering, the only people on Earth stupid enough to believe in perpetual exponential growth are economists.

[TMWNN → gadders]

>If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.

—Herbert Stein, economist