Comment by pembrook
1 year ago
If people would actually be happier with your solution that's simply a marketing problem, which is entirely solvable.
But I think more often people delude themselves into thinking their thing is better (since it's their baby) when it actually is not, which no amount of marketing dollars can solve.
It's not just a marketing problem, because the amount of information you'd have to have in order to make a truly rational decision is beyond any simple marketing campaign. Your competitors would also be creating campaigns against yours, so how would a consumer be able to figure out the truth without impossible amounts of work?
I'm sorry but your view on the economy and society is really naive. As if everything could be solved by markets. Monopolies don't exist. Powers other than supply and demand (political, societal, geological, etc) don't matter. It's not that simple. Read some books of (old) economists or philosophers
If you cannot argue your points succinctly here without ad hominem attacks, I presume they aren't strong enough to stand on their own.
A rebuttal of "markets don't work because monopolies might form!" doesn't make sense when the alternative is to make everything a monopoly in the form of top-down government control.
Even the Chinese Communist Party understands that markets are the best way to create value and growth.