h a l f b a k e r yIncidentally, why isn't "spacecraft" another word for "interior design"?
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Although there are reverse bidding systems out there, they're not in use by the common man. Heavy usage of such an app would greatly improve the ability of a capitalist society to match supply to demand. [+] |
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// people can bid on wants and offer to fulfil wants //
Baked. Congratulations, you just reinvented the economy. |
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// maslow's hierarchy //
needs improvement. the top tier of the hierarchy (pursuing
self-actualization) is the "abyss" that Nietzsche described,
while the bottom tier of the hierarchy (survival tier) is
where the real memorable fun happens. |
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That's putting it mildly. Maslow's "Motivation and
Personality" (the book in which the hierarchy was
originally proposed) was basically the manual by which I
was brought up, and I cannot stress strongly enough how
misconceived is the book, the hierarchy and the whole
"positive psychology" movement to which it contributed. |
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Maslow's whole wretched ziggurat was, and remains, a
pyramid scam. It is anti-scientific, anti-democratic,
economically exploitative and would be improved only by
some well placed drill holes and generous quantities of
ANFO. |
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... or maybe I've just been around [8th] too long. |
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// the "abyss" that Nietzsche described // |
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Don't knock it 'til you've tried it, [sninc] ... |
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I'm sure eBay used to do this - i.e. allow you to post things you wanted as well as things you were offering for sale. [later edit, after some searching - yes, this was the "Want it now" section, which was on eBay in the late '90's] |
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Kijiji, which is owned by eBay, lets you post want ads. I
doubt anybody reads them, though. |
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Many online stores let you have a wishlist. I expect wishlist
data is mined like all the other data. "Hey Joe, wishlisting of
wotsits has spiked, order another crate would ya?" That
would seem to cover demand signalling for known goods. |
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Halfbakery covers demand signalling for the unknown. |
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There are many, many items of demand that never make it to a store's wish list. And I use Amazon's wish list as a buffer for things I'm not sure I want. I would pay a premium for a 24 hour Chinese food delivery in my area, or for a pizza delivery that doesn't demand my personal information as a cost of doing business. Aside from local businesses there are many items I want that aren't quite matched by the market, and I'm sure I'm not the only person who wants such things. At the least the app could offer perfectly-matched items that I didn't know existed or wasn't able to find. |
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// there are many items I want that aren't quite matched by the market, and I'm sure I'm not the only person who wants such things. // |
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It's all a matter of money, and to a certain extent geography. |
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If you have enough money (and locate yourself in a region where law is completely soluble in ready cash) then anything you want that exists - plutonium by the kilo, narcotics and stimulants, cloned narwhals, surface-to-orbit launch capability, live humans or baby pandas - can be obtained. |
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If you want a single unique item, like van Gogh's "The Sunflowers", or Enola Gay, or the Sydney Harbour Bridge, then that is admittedly more difficult, if the owner doesn't want to sell &&/|| it's not very portable. |
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//if the owner doesn't want to sell// then you are not offering them enough money. |
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Either that, or you need to hire someone to make their heirs and successors an offer they daren't refuse. |
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That's only true after a certain amount of time and
advertising. Of course I could put an ad on Craig's List
offering $300 cash for anyone who bring me such and such
a pizza, but it will still take the time for the right person
to read it and respond. If I want a guaranteed spit-free
pizza I might have to pay even more for them to video-
tape the whole trip. Any more complicated and we're in
the realm of contractual obligations and it would cost less
just to hire my own chef. But if I'm willing to pay $40 for
a $20 pizza so long as I can pay in cash with no ID or app,
the normal way of doing things has no way to inform the
market of this desire. |
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// I would pay a premium […] for a pizza delivery that doesn't demand my
personal information as a cost of doing business. // |
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How are they going to deliver pizza to you without knowing where you live? |
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// if the owner doesn't want to sell &&/|| it's not very portable // |
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// then you are not offering them enough money. // |
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But that is its own problem, sometimes, because you want to buy something
(e.g. Star Wars or Firefly) to get it away from its current owner (e.g. Disney),
but you don't want to give that owner the amount of money that would take
because that would make them more powerful. |
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Then the service you require is theft, not purchase. |
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Intellectual property cannot be stolen, only copied and/or destroyed. If I make a perfect copy of your car you're not out a car. If I make a perfect copy of your car and then burn your car I haven't stolen your car, I've destroyed it. |
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What if I don't have a car? |
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We will supply a Wicker Car- the contemporary equivalent of a Wicker Man- in which you will be placed (tied up if necessary*) for the excruciating but mercifully brief remainder of your life, [poc]. |
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*Actually, the Intercalary ties up all the customers whether it's required or not - it seems to be just another manifestation of his unseemly and deviant obsession with ropes and knots. |
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// If I make a perfect copy of your car you're not out a car.
If I make a perfect copy of your car and then burn your car I
haven't stolen your car, I've destroyed it. // |
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Ah the old Car of Theseus problem [link]. |
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A just court would award me your car as damages for you
destroying my car. Would my new car be the same car as my
old car? |
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