Brandon Hall @bthall@scholar.social

@RandomDamage
Yes, you're correct! I posted these posts before looking into the term/concept itself. I was reacting to the news article I saw without looking into it more. 😥

The concept itself is actually quite interesting in terms of path dependent outcomes and innovation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_destruction

The article I saw the term used in was just more like "the market won't give us what we want at the price we want it, and we're f-ing pissed!" 😂

Huh, I posted a toot here via Fedilab but it is nowhere to be seen. It did have the F word in it, so maybe it got blocked? 🤔

It makes me laugh because this phrase would only be used by someone that's working with a very different idea of how the economy works/should work. It's like expecting the economy to be centrally planned and that in this case some person/policymaker arbitrarily set a high price and wiped out "demand" overnight, similar to as if they killed off a whole industry with strict regulations, but the gas prices thing is affecting the consumer side of the market instead of the producer side.

I start laughing every time that I look at the high gas prices because of how a recent article described the prices as leading to "demand destruction". ("Destruction" insofar as the prices are so high that the quantity at which they're demanded cannot/will not be paid for at those prices.)

I wonder if there's been any studies on whether there's negative outcomes for political campaigns that call constituents IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GODDAMN NIGHT

For those interested, I'm thinking of one's limits as a stock while one's boundaries are flows (dimensions over which there's threshold levels of acceptable demands). If the demand level is exceeded (by demands from others), limits are eroded and may fall to zero, at which point the relationship (of any sort) hopefully folds.

In a roundabout way, some recent relationship turmoil has provided great substance for my pet theories of interpersonal economics.

I even have good foundations now for one idea I've had about why jerks can persist in society:

People are more than happy to just shirk off the jerks than deal with their heavy demands, so the jerks are likely to only slowly (if at all) learn how to perceive and effectively respond to people's boundaries and the rewards of doing so.

Are any of you familiar with #podcasts that deal with/are for people who have academic/scholarly interests but aren't in academia? Please recommend them if so.

@MTvarana
Good point. I think I will reach out to them to let them know that I appreciated their stuff.

I found a podcast episode where the guy discusses his decision to do this, and his reasoning for it is pretty unsatisfying for me. 😂