Re: Why is Mark Zuckerberg angry at critics in India?

What ken suggesting about costs and pricing is  misleading and false.

All prices are paid by consumers.
Repeat with me.
All prices are paid by consumers.

This is true for any form of economy, centrally controlled or free market or something in between. 

That is why costs have to be reduced at all level and at all sides, which is only possible in free market.

Consumers are tricked into believing they are paying less by shifting costs away from point of sale so that it cannot be seen or felt, and dose not make consumer angry.  But, the costs do not disappear from system. They reappears somewhere else and or get defrayed over other items.

Even though socialists try to shift cost from one group of people to another, it does not work well. 

Eventually consumers pay sum total of all costs: price at point of sale, taxes, or lost product and services, quality of service. 

Sincerely,
Ratnendra Pandey


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> On Jan 3, 2016, at 4:13 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]> wrote:
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> That leaves out a substantial transit brokerage sort of wholesale market but yea, broadly correct.
> 
> --srs
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>> On 03-Jan-2016, at 5:16 PM, ken <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Reduced to it's most simplistic model, the Internet is paid for by two distinct groups, ie, the consumer and the businesses who wish to reach the consumers. (Admittedly, governments in many cases also absorbs costs - but for this discussion let's leave that issue for later in this discourse.)
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