Social Cause 01 (Jul 08 - Jul 15)

Social Cause 01 (Jul 08 - Jul 15)

Postby RidingOnTop » Mon Jul 21, 2008 2:41 pm

Hi All, often think about what one person (myself) can do to have positively impact the economy.. such as boycotting lousy establishments and supporting new good quality ones, etc... So this recent email from a friend is pretty encouraging, but is this kind of idea actually feasible? :D

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Nice Logic - It May Work!! Kindly Spare a couple of minutes to read this article.

A man eats two eggs each morning for breakfast. When he goes to the Kirana store he pays $0.12 a dozen. Since a dozen eggs won't last a week he normally buys two dozens at a time. One day while buying eggs he notices that the price has risen to $0.16. The next time he buys groceries, eggs are $0.22 a dozen.

When asked to explain the price of eggs the store owner says, "The price has gone up and I have to raise my price accordingly". This store buys 100 dozen eggs a day. He checked around for a better price and all the distributors have raised their prices. The distributors have begun to buy from the huge egg farms. The small egg farms have been driven out of business. The huge egg farms sell 100,000 dozen eggs a day to distributors. With no competition, they can set the price as they see fit. The distributors then have to raise their prices to the grocery stores. And on and on and on.

As the man kept buying eggs the price kept going up. He saw the big egg trucks delivering 100 dozen eggs each day. Nothing changed there. He checked out the huge egg farms and found they were selling 100,000 dozen eggs to the distributors daily. Nothing had changed but the price of eggs.

Then week before Diwali the price of eggs shot up to $0.40 a dozen. Again he asked the grocery owner why and was told, "Cakes and baking for the holiday". The huge egg farmers know there will be a lot of baking going on and more eggs will be used. Hence, the price of eggs goes up. Expect the same thing at Christmas and other times when family cooking, baking, etc. happen.

This pattern continues until the price of eggs is $0.60 a dozen. The man says, " There must be something we can do about the price of eggs".

He starts talking to all the people in his town and they decide to stop buying eggs. This didn't work because everyone needed eggs.

Finally, the man suggested only buying what you need. He ate 2 eggs a day. On the way home from work he would stop at the grocery and buy two eggs. Everyone in town started buying 2 or 3 eggs a day.

The grocery store owner began complaining that he had too many eggs in his cooler. He told the distributor that he didn't need any eggs.
Maybe wouldn't need any all week.

The distributor had eggs piling up at his warehouse. He told the huge egg farms that he didn't have any room for eggs would not need any for at least two weeks.

At the egg farm, the chickens just kept on laying eggs. To relieve the pressure, the huge egg farm told the distributor that they could buy the eggs at a lower price.

The distributor said, " I don't have the room for the %$&^*&% eggs even if they were free". The distributor told the grocery store owner that he would lower the price of the eggs if the store would start buying again.

The grocery store owner said, "I don't have room for more eggs. The customers are only buying 2 or 3 eggs at a time. Now if you were to drop the price of eggs back down to the original price, the customers
would start buying by the dozen again".

The distributors sent that proposal to the huge egg farmers but the egg farmers liked the price they were getting for their eggs but, those chickens just kept on laying. Finally, the egg farmers lowered the
price of their eggs. But only a few paisa.

The customers still bought 2 or 3 eggs at a time. They said, "when the price of eggs gets down to where it was before, we will start buying by the dozen."

Slowly the price of eggs started dropping. The distributors had to slash their prices to make room for the eggs coming from the egg farmers.

The egg farmers cut their prices because the distributors wouldn't buy at a higher price than they were selling eggs for. Anyway, they had full warehouses and wouldn't need eggs for quite a while.

And those chickens kept on laying.

Eventually, the egg farmers cut their prices because they were throwing away eggs they couldn't sell.

The distributors started buying again because the eggs were priced to where the stores could afford to sell them at the lower price.

And the customers starting buying by the dozen again.

Now, transpose this analogy to the gasoline industry.

Don't fill up the tank of your car. You may have to stop for gas twice a week, but the price should come down.
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Re: Economics - What can 1 person do?

Postby HengHeng » Mon Jul 21, 2008 2:45 pm

Issue here is chickens/eggs unlike crude is a renewable source. As long as sufficial food is given it can produce eggs. You can't say the same for crude.
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Re: Economics - What can 1 person do?

Postby sidney » Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:50 am

Economics - What can 1 person do? Do wonders. And is costly too!

Think the one closest to u. E.g. Husband/Wife

Cost of care in sickness? Normal class C will do.
Cost of maintaince? Cal this if u have a mistress
Cost of sex? Take the geylang sextopedia index SGI
Cost of emotional support / disappointment? No index given
Cost of dating? Go surf SDU or other dating agency package
Cost of birth giving? Find out surrogate mother's paycheck
Cost of complications arising from birth giving weak bladder, water retention, weight gain? Doc's advise only

Conclusions: Tat partner beside u in bed is a priceless asset. If anyone complaint no multi-bagger, think again.
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Re: Economics - What can 1 person do?

Postby kennynah » Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:36 am

sidney wrote:Conclusions: Tat partner beside u in bed is a priceless asset.


which day? 8-) joke joke...
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Re: Economics - What can 1 person do?

Postby sidney » Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:07 pm

Make hay when the sunshines. When timing is right for laying egg. lol
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Re: Social Cause

Postby winston » Sat Nov 08, 2008 10:21 am

I have just changed the title of this thread from "Economics - What can 1 person do ?", as the titles in this section are now sorted alphabetically. If you have a better title, please do feel free to let me know.

While changing this title, I cannot help but reflect on the US election. An African American is now the President of America. What can 1 person do ? Well, he can vote and choose the President of America.

Although I dont have high regards for the Bush Admin for starting the war in Iraq and not intervening in Lebanon, I do have high regards for the American system of Two Term Presidency, Democracy, Free Speech, Free Press, Check & Balances, Justice System, Discrimination Rules ( Sex, Race, Color, Background, Sexual Orientation, Physical Disability ) etc.

What can 1 person do ? Well, he can make the world around him a better place to live in. And if the people around him is convinced that it is the better way, they can also go around making the world a better place around them. And so on..

1 Person can do a lot indeed...
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Re: Social Cause

Postby helios » Sat Nov 08, 2008 10:31 am

our Winston ge is right.

1 person can sleep, shít, love & change the world around him.

i spent my year 2008 on some social work, it got to worth something in the years ahead.

afterall, önce in a Lifetime ... who sang this song?
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Re: Social Cause

Postby kennynah » Mon Nov 10, 2008 12:03 am

winston wrote:
Although I dont have high regards for the Bush Admin for starting the war in Iraq and not intervening in Lebanon, I do have high regards for the American system of Two Term Presidency, Democracy, Free Speech, Free Press, Check & Balances, Justice System, Discrimination Rules ( Sex, Race, Color, Background, Sexual Orientation, Physical Disability ) etc.

What can 1 person do ? Well, he can make the world around him a better place to live in. And if the people around him is convinced that it is the better way, they can also go around making the world a better place around them. And so on..

1 Person can do a lot indeed...


i am with you on this.... what can 1 person do..... VOTE is an important and very blunt instrument... 25% of singaporeans have this tool....and have abused it for as long as i recall...
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Re: Social Cause

Postby winston » Thu Jan 01, 2009 12:51 pm

While we are enjoying the New Year in the comfort and security of our homes, with our loved ones, in Gaza, families are being separated, their homes and lives destroyed....

Please tell me what can one person do in this instance ?

Petition your local government official, to get your Head of State, to make a speech, asking the Americans to stop the stupidity ?

How about not buying any more American goods and services ? Unfortunately both Pepsi and Coke are made by American companies :(. Ok, soft drinks is not good for me so I will try to switch to Green Tea..

Well, I can also skip Starbucks ...

I have already switched from Pizza Hut to Pepe's Pizza because the later tastes better.

And I'm eating less KFC nowadays ..

Also, I shop only in Uniqlo nowadays, which is Japanese owned.

Ok, I will cancel my credit card from Citibank when it expires..

Actually, I dont use too many American goods or services nowadays....

From today onwards, if I have a choice between two products, I would not buy American. I cannot allow my money to be used to buy weapons for Israel, to be used against innocent civilians.
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Re: Social Cause

Postby kennynah » Thu Jan 01, 2009 1:27 pm

obviosuly, then u wont be buying any stocks that directly or indirectly benefit american institutions? for example...keppel corp may build rigs for american coampnies...and so, in order not to benefit the rig onwers, you will avoid buying kep corp shares?

i am curious as to the extend that you are willing to help stop the israel/palestine war ?
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