Cerb
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- Aug 26, 2000
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1. Any haggling is already assumed in the cost. Whatever X is has either been determined enough or not enough.What you can pay, and what the market can pay don't have to be the same thing. Sorry, you do not get to make people your slave because you think they aren't worth, or don't deserve what they charge, you are free to haggle with them.
2. What the market can and will pay is what I've been talking about. Very few people can get by by only serving a single customer; and every person generally needs a multitude of products and services. What someone will pay is not, "what Joe around the corner that works in the Deli," will pay, but what some aggregate may pay.
If that amount isn't enough, then it is your place to spend less, or lower prices to gain a wider market; not their responsibility to pay you more because you think you deserve it for having gone to a specialized school to get a specialized skill set.
The aggregate of the market, usually local, is all that matters. Some people are going to go without or cheap out. Some can't pay. Some don't value certain skills enough. And so on. However, any such fringes don't prevent someone from working for someone else, or working for themselves, for some amount of pay. But what that aggregate is willing to pay is all you deserve; and once again, that's simply not profit. In other words, and the way it's normally phrased, again, it is, "what the market will bear." You deserve no more than that; and whether that amounts to profit or not is irrelevant to those paying it.
3. What's with the slavery crap? Is that just to be inflammatory? If someone has in their mind that they should be worth more than they are, it is not enslaving them to only offer what they're actually worth. Offering less may be insulting, but that's still nothing remotely close to slavery.
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