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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 16 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Price = Cost of Materials + (Middle Man + Middle Man + Middle Man + Middle Man + Middle Man + Middle Man) + Cost of Labor.

It's Econ 101

[–] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Nah, the cost of labor + materials + distribution is the minimum price of an item. The actual price in practice will be that price + whatever the manufacturer can get away with charging.

What determines the premium they can get away with is whether or not alternative goods exist and whether or not the consumers are informed of them, motivated to seek them out, and capable of making the switch.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Macroecnomics is just all the different ways we ruin microeconomics

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Price is whichever is greater: what they think the highest cost*adoption will be or the minimum people will do it for.