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Post by Asahina Momiko on Jan 16, 2018 17:30:44 GMT -5
...Momiko looked over at Mako; She appreciated the save. After all, there was no way she was prepared to keep others from getting their homework. It just wouldn't be Just. Still, she said nothing, giving Mako a slight smile before turning back to the sensei.
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Post by Shibatsu Eito on Jan 16, 2018 17:45:39 GMT -5
Eito taps his fingers on his lips. "Interesting methods here. I see Daidoji san has employed the traditional method of dealing with supply. Otomo-san is trying to take the high-ground, a surprisingly effective strategy actually with only two down sides. First if a single person seems willing to win at all costs, such as Tarik-san, the tactic will falter. Second you need to remember all details of a deal. Remember I said homework is optional. A zero here won't count against you, it will just make the tests and essay easier. Stepping outside your rolls as merchants a moment, let us examine this moment so far. What happend to the demand of the homework when the supply drastically dropped."
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Post by Tarik al-Menjari on Jan 16, 2018 17:56:20 GMT -5
"Eito-sensei, making your opponent believe that you are going to do everything to win, usually depletes his will to fight and I think I am still winning." He countered.
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Post by Otomo Mochihiko on Jan 16, 2018 18:11:59 GMT -5
"I will just ignore the market for now and do my homework no matter the grade I get. I'll learn from it while I slowly push my chocolate coins into the school and start exchanging them for other candies. When time comes, I will be the only one who will have the knowledge and the variety to gain more long term results. The market only cares for results, not grades." Mochihiko offers his own idea.
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Post by Daidoji Satoru on Jan 16, 2018 18:17:52 GMT -5
I simply do not care-- is what he would have said, if his body language didn't say so enough. He rested his head in his hand, watching the others with dwindling interest. He needed to try just a little harder for his father's sake, but like Shibatsu-sensei said, the final exams are what really mattered. If his teacher insisted on having others bid on their advantages...
"I invested in Tarik. I trust his judgment."
Besides, that means later they could just share the worksheet. That's what printers and copiers are for.
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Post by Shibatsu Eito on Jan 16, 2018 18:20:30 GMT -5
Eito nods slightly "A wise strategy Otomo-san, taking a loss today for a gain tomorrow. And Tarik-san, at the moment so but you also lunged ahead into a position of strength from which it would now be easy for your classmates to band together to take you down. Now then, lets get down to the truth of this scenario. You get to keep whatever coins you have. These homework are just my grocery list written over and over with various spacing and fonts. Your actual homework is, I want you to write me a one page essay about what you may have gleaned about market prices and competition in general from this exercise. Anyone want to share opinions with the class now? I don't bruise easily so you can even call the lesson pointless if you wish, just be prepared to defend it."
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Post by Daidoji Satoru on Jan 16, 2018 18:41:06 GMT -5
"So marketing is about deception and sowing discord," Satoru concludes with a shrug. "Sellers will push their products, take advantage of a demand, competitors are too busy bidding on a product to realize that the sellers are pushing a defective product, or something whose bugs have not been tested, something whose safety ratings have not been properly established. If you're lucky your transaction is an honest one. Instead, we we're all nearly conned."
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Post by Shibatsu Eito on Jan 16, 2018 19:00:06 GMT -5
"Again, Daidoji-san has a firm grasp on the traditionalist theory of economics. Trust another with your investments and a general distrust for the process. Discord could be sewn but it is not the only policy. Otomo-san relied on co-operation against the supplier. Tarik-san relied on co-operation on controlling the market itself. There was absolutely nothing stopping all of you from choosing someone to bid a single coin and just share the work between all of you. The market is like the court and the battlefield Daidoji-san, no more deceptive or discordant then it's inhabitants wish it to be."
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Post by Akodo Uuen-Xiang on Jan 16, 2018 19:35:04 GMT -5
Uuen-Xiang raises an eyebrow. "Could one not argue that while it is correct that demand increased as supply dropped, the demand was only due to the... Consumers... Not remembering that the product is in fact unnecessary, and therefore, those of us who waited and said or did nothing were really the ones playing long games?"
She makes a few gestures as she speaks, though they seem to make little sense in relation to what she says. "See, the initial response to supply dropping was for one to make an attempt at obtaining the entire supply to take control of the market share, and for someone else to attack the supplier for basically extorting suppliers with artificial low supply, ne? In that case, I would side with Otomo-san."
"Now, as it transpired, the chaos sensei's actions caused made you, as a supplier, remind us that what you supply is not a must to own, which is refrshingly honest from most adverts, but has also made your supply essentially useless, since you have removed the reason for there to be a demand?"
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Post by Otomo Mako on Jan 16, 2018 19:52:43 GMT -5
Mako sighed, her plan wasn't to take the high road at all, it was an attempt to show the dangerous nature of commerce, and attempting to bargain from an unstable position. But still, she had forgotten that homework wasn't mandatory. That said, if she could get out of it so she could focus on her date tonight... " A supplier has to do more than supply a product in any economy. It's part of a suppliers job to create the demand for the product. You gave us something undesirable but twisted our expectations to make it seem desirable. You turned the product you could supply into one worth our attention, and indeed competition over." She looked towards Momika for a moment, then back to the sensei. "The same is true for any product in any market. Not even those who provide fine food are free from needing to create demand. Sure, Every one eats, but eating is cheap. It's easy. The reason to go to fancy restaurants, to buy high class sushi, is because those who provide it have made it seem important to seeming rich." A look towards Tarik this time, she smiled at her childhood friend. You can easily track these trends in fashion. Look at what was once a hundred koku to be the belle of any court, and how now the same object, with the same material, the same every thing is now availiable for cheap, because the trends of fashion have moved on. Your lesson gave us a first hand account of the creation of a demand, and how that can be more important to commerce than simply understanding demands that exist.."
Finally she looked directly at Satoru, and opened her mouth again, "But while this time it was a deception, it isn't fair to say it always is one. Your clan has profited from the way commerce works for thousands of years, for instance. And if you look to food once more, you will see why. What does the Crane boast their land is the greatest for, food wise? Fish, and rice. And look at what has been made, over time, the norm and standard for a proper high class samurai to eat. Fish, and rice.
It's not an accident that they encouraged the standard to be themselves and what they provided. But it also doesn't make it a deception, just because they are the reason we value it, no? |
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