So if you want to help Walmart destroy its competition, raise the minimum wage.
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because private sector competition raises prices?
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Competition raises quality and lowers prices.
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The whole point of having a monopoly is to have no competition then raise prices.
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And of course they won't absorb the increase, which is a large reason why these companies that are already taking everyone's money with zero competition just raises everyone's rates at LEAST once a year.
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but if OPEC can run this same deficit for 20 years before exhausting its cash reserves isnt it smart for them to do this for 10 years to kill all the competition and raise the rates once everyone's gone?
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But anti-trust rules means that it won't be allowed as the consumer will be hurt by the subsequent large behemoth that scuttles competition and raises prices for the consumer.
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By creating lobbying competition you raise the price of lobbying, which might discourage some firms from fucking around with their cash flows too much.
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That is the general point of job licensing, reduce competition and raise barriers to entry into the market.
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When the saudi's have killed all their competition, they'll raise prices again.
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You're saying the competition will raise prices, by first lowering prices, leading to lower wages, leading to a shortage of workers, leading to higher wages, leading to higher prices.
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However they do say they keep prices low, and that opening up competition would raise prices.
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It'd not because OPEC is trying to bottom out the oil and drive out competition, to raise it again later?
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The cable company's live in an oligopoly where they all agree to stay at certain prices so to lower competition and raise prices.
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If you're working for a temp agency, head hunter firm, etc, gaps in services probably become incredibly common because you're dealing with people who for whatever reason use agencies to find work, not that this is bad but that environment lends itself to individuals who just can't hold jobs, especially staffing companies that do low to mid level labor so I can understand why for you, it's probably a big issue when you see it and why your clients don't even bother with those types of candidates but for you to sharpen your recruitment kit, you should put some effort into figuring out how to get answers out of people who cause you to raise red flags in your mind, compare them overall to the rest of their competition and trust your gut in certain situations.
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She allowed them to raise revenue with too great a latitude to make it a truly interesting competition fostering creativity though that was her stated aim.
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You can bitch all you want – Uber will not raise rates any time in the near future as long as it has competition from others (Lyft, Sidecar, et al.)
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The whole point of dropping prices is to get your competition to go out of business and then raise prices up much higher which is something /u/ClockworkOnion never stated.
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IMO a planning system which creates perverse incentives and which raises barriers to competition is broken.
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So, if competition is inserted into the market some of those economies of scale are going to decrease and as such to continue to be run as a not-for-profit TBS would have to raise prices or cut costs elsewhere.
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The teamsters are knocking on our door, and the company issued a big raise which pays us the same as the competition as well as fixing internal pay differentials.
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The Saudis have invoked the Oil Weapon to drive their competition out of business, which will let them raise prices again in the future.
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That is, they'd be unable to restart when the price rises, and OPEC will later raises prices without that competition.
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I'm just saying, it only works if the competition suffers for it, if they are able to adjust or are willing to fight back and the Saudis then say you know what lets raise the price now, but the competition is committed to keeping it low, it'll be the Saudis themselves that suffer lose of market share.
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I don't think they will do this and I'm not sure that the competition isn't going to take the first chance they get to raise the price, I'm just trying to illustrate that now that their is a price war, and the price has been driven down, it's not going to be super quick to reverse.
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You have to keep doing it, because the competition will always catch up, whether it's because Valve gives everyone the tools (which raises the bar for everyone and gives everyone a better experience) or because they do it on their own.
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But most importantly, according to TransCanada's own documents, it will raise gas prices in the Midwest because it will create more competition against American oil companies.
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They rarely have a reason to raise the price that is not to dwarf the competition, addicting them to mal-innovation.
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In fact, I think that it may have an anticompetitive effect by forcing businesses with narrow margins to raise their prices while large companies with wide margins can afford to sustain their prices until their competition fails (at which point they can hike them up and everyone will be complaining again about how they can't afford anything).
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That's all true, and I'll add that being able to make a living through competition will invariably raise the level of competition.
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Once they have shut down Russia's economy and the US stops producing because it's cheaper to get it from the Saudis, they will raise the price through to roof with no competition.
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Once they have shut down Russia's economy and the US stops producing because it's cheaper to get it from the Saudis, they will raise the price through to roof with no competition.
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Once they have shut down Russia's economy and the US stops producing because it's cheaper to get it from the Saudis, they will raise the price through to roof with no competition.
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The low prices will put these companies out of business, which eliminates competition for when the Saudis ultimately decide to raise prices sky-high in time.
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This will cut out the Saudi's newer competition, and they'll be able to raise prices and own the market again.
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That's what I thought until my broncos franchise in Madden 10 was too dominant and I had to raise up the Packers, Saints, Browns, and Jaguars to give me some competition.
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We could get both if either the government allowed competition in all the markets or straight up force the companies to raise the speeds and lower prices.
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When you impose regulations that raise the cost of doing business, you are raising barriers to entry for new competition.
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If your really so concerned about Comcast having to big a slice of the market, support the smaller companies EVEN WHEN COMCAST DROPS THEIR PRICES since you know that if you don't, Comcast will just raise their prices when the competition dies due to YOUR refusal to support them.
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Im thinking two rock solid cages, two dedicated pressing benches, a competition bench, a lat pull machine, glute ham raise, two flat to incline benches, a deadlift area.
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When the competition slim shareholder driven companies have a duty to raise prices.
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So he should face the flak from the competition, just because this is an online game doesn't mean we need to run to our Blizzard God's over a small "I'll raise the price of bags!"
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If anything RP men would be pro-homo men, because that's less competition for them, ewhich comparatively raises SMV.
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If the wage increase applies to everyone, then their competitors will raise their prices by 5% as well, so there won't be a major change in relative competition.
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TO constantly dissuade competition we would need to always keep prices low, rather than the monopolistic model where we drive everyone else from the business then raise prices again.
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Maybe working in group is a good thing to raise the competition spirit.
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I think this is an excellent idea to raise price competition.
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This is to meet the demand of international competition as much as it is to raise the quality of education in this country.
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My argument was for EITHER allowing competition or doing what you suggested and forcing the ISPs to raise speeds and lower pricing, i.e.
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Intel doesn't treat its engineers anything like it did during that competition phase, they are no longer superstars with catered lunches and great raises.
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