How de Blasio's COVID Advice is Hurting Small Businesses in New York | We The Internet TV
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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2024
- NYC is looking out for its small businesses during COVID-19, as long as they don't try too hard to stay in business.
New York is asking its citizens to snitch on their local businesses for "price gouging." But in the midst of a widespread shutdown, some businesses might need to charge higher prices in order to survive!
So what's more important? Keeping local businesses afloat? Or paying low prices for hand sanitizer? Is it possible to find a balance between the two?
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I will not forget - I'm an adult and adults are capable of worrying about multiple things at the same time. Common Sense and logic.
I used the 311 call and showed them my NYState and NYCity tax bill. still waiting for a response. I will keep Lou posted.
"New York directs you to inform on anyone defying a government decree."
I approve this message-
Josef Stalin.
Some in this country will not be happy until it burns. Sad.
And then they will blame it on those who warned them what would happen!
A solid laugh out loud at "you know.. business" 2:32
I agree 100%. We're adults. We can juggle the worries...and we have the brains to decide if we wish to do business with the various establishments...or not.
It's almost like the loudest voices for "just stay home" are liberal arts majors or children/young adults who've never worried about paying bills and are miraculously at lower risk from this virus than the seasonal flu.
@@userJohnSmith Exactly, or people who have government jobs that are guaranteed a paycheck. Or sheeple with no critical thinking skills, who actually believe mainstream media and conventional medicine without question.
@@neatoketo6238 I generally trust conventional medicine as a discipline but my background is science/engineering and let's just say that I don't trust them without large datasets to work with. They weren't good enough at math to do what we do and statistics is more a set of guidelines than actual rules. They treat it like it's gospel and only a handful have the mathematic and scientific understanding to interpret data effectively let alone set up a proper experiment. Fortunately, those are usually the guys publishing.
Remember 3%... Yeah there was data from the only country to get good containment on the virus showing 0.1-.3%. It's therefore the most controlled dataset so it's the best data. Now what are the studies showing? 0.1-.5%...
Retail Catch22 in NYC. You can only sell it for a loss if you stock it, but if you sell it for a profit, you get fined. Makes perfect sense to the voices in my head.
And this is how a black market starts for certain products.
This was so great. Because you are an adult and can be concerned about multiple things at once. I love it
Oh, come ON New Yorkers, buck up! You can take your shutdown for at least
another year. Or two. Or three....
Love this channel
We don't deserve you. xoxo
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...no. You don't. 🤗
I've got to say I'm kind of looking forward to solicitors calling I have a few soundboards I want to try out.
When you pick up don't forget to tell them that your name is Tom and that you're calling about adult brand diapers that they ordered. 😈
Record it. Id like a copy :)
Lou, you forgot to put your email in the video.
How am I supposed to email you?
OMG, I had no idea I did business with so many companies...and none are really doing anything much but spending money sending me emails or in some cases snail mail!
Prices aren't only the cost of the item you want to buy, its also crucial information as to the supply and demand of a product. If you don't allow your businesses to raise the price then the suppliers don't have an accurate take on how much they need to produce.
Life rule #1:
Don't live in New York.
Welcome to stock video theater.
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First! And a NYC resident...this shit need get up going like now...shit's crazy 🙄😅
It's the free market, most people don't get it. Not everything is walmart prices..I rather pay more or a product to get away from another walmart customer.
I didn't know Lou dated photo frame filler models.
All his dates with them involve Photoshopping himself in.
We the Internet TV social distancing before it was cool ;)
We should follow your advice, because we must keep these small businesses going for all the ghosts that will be left after everyone is dead.
LOL ! Awesome !!
Price gouging in emergencies is a real problem. If the price the stores pay for their stock is staying the same and they're charging more, making more profit than they would have, that's just evil. They're taking advantage of the very people that supported them until now.
If their costs went up, fine, increase prices. I'm not stupid.
"I'm not stupid." Did you read what you wrote?
@@WeTheInternetTV Yeah. Price gouging is bad. And I left the window open for reasonable price increase to match cost increase. Ethical and smart. Adults can be both things at the same time.
@madwtubeWhatever education you got that told you price gouging is good runs completely contrary to any reasonable person's gut reaction to it.🤮🤮🤮🤮
Shops close from 🤮🤮🤮🤮 btw. It's just stupid to price gouge from every angle.
There are laws against it is how vitriolic people feel about it.
In the end, do what you like. People will remember what you did. May your shop sink or swim.
You, sir, are a light in the darkness
Business owners know far, far less about running a business than politicans who have spent their whole adult life in politics do. And all business owners are independently wealthy, and they'd just hide their wealth in cash hidden under their beds if government didn't force them to open their wallets. Every penny of every total sale goes straight to the owner's pile of money, they wouldn't even pay employees I'd the government didn't make them. That's why government is such an important part of the economy, they're forcing businesses to do whatever useless crap they think is necessary, from licenses to permits, and giving those fees to the government creates more jobs than the business itself. You're not just rubbing a business, you're keeping several beurocrats from starving.
So just shut up and do and spend and function exactly what the politicians made up their minds that you should do. Because they clearly, with their years of campaigns and raising funds through any means necessary, know far more about your business, community, family and even yourself than you do.
I love this so much
New show on OWN “Government, fix my life!”
*'SO WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS'^
How are you handling Covid 19?
The Law of Supply and Demand?
Ha, ha, that's REALITY! Don't remind us of reality!
Did you come down heah from Fenway Park to annoy us?
I worked on Wall Street. I left NYC in 1976. Back then I could see the destruction coming.
Lou, you need a red mask!! Thanks for a great video!! I hope your ex girlfriends see this & let you know they are okay!! Best wishes
I don't understand why the economy and human lives are so much always opposed in public discourse, because if 2 to 5% of the population dies in the spawn of only a few months, that will be also totally terrible for the economy
Because the national mentality has been reduced to black and white thanks to ever radicalizing media outrage.
Funniest shit ever!! This guy should be rich. John Cusack got nothing on Lou
HAHAHAHA
Oh Lou, you silly man....you think you can juggle multiple worries because you are an adult? I sense that you have privileges that you are not owning up too....😂😂😂
The old privilege of a functioning cerebral cortex.
USA is a highly subsidized retail market. Americans couldn’t afford the cost of living in other 1st world countries. If the populace started a trend of purchasing actual market prices, that means wages would have to increase in order to maintain status quo quality of life. Natural inflation has been tampered with in USA since 1980’s.
So, keep status quo. 99% populace gets access to more stuff that doesn’t matter, not real property, without increased wages. 1% get profits. Banks get loan interest, not principal. Politicians get to raise debt ceiling (correction...lower the floor of the debt catacombs). God bless America.
You mean the other 1st world countries with a VAT?
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Good point. My only reply would further this discussion away any point of focus or clarity, as did my original comment. Hope you and your family are safe & healthy.
Arresting small business owners yet letting rioters and looters scoot free.
Nice job
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Love your work, but this time I got to disagree. The issue isn't raising prices for supply and demand, there are people down the street trying to charge $60 for a small bottle of hand sanitizer and even more for masks, and people are actually buying it because they don't want to risk their children or their parents dying because they brought Covid-19 into the house. Old people are also getting completely screwed by raised prices on things they need to survive. I like to hope that people will only be reporting the price gougers and not the people raising prices reasonably on hard to get items, but without some kind of order in place things start to fall apart. Every time I open my phone or chrome I see a news story about someone getting arrested or called out for buying a crap load of TP, hand sanitizer, masks, or etc and trying to sell for a greatly inflated price. My personal favorites are the ones where they try to get a refund and are told no by the managers.
It’s highly unlikely a small business will be killed by a hand full of reports. Price gauging is a thing, especially in desperate times.
In reality, a larger business price gauging will most likely soke up money then would have otherwise been spent on smaller businesses. And the whole ‘let them charge whatever they want, it’s ok because customers will just not say for anything over priced’ argument goes out the window with necessities like food and medicine. That’s why the free market felled to give us good healthcare.
Ethan Lion7 Just making logical conclusion, people have been price gauged for essential goods during hard times.
You make a fair point. It's different because the govt. forces non-essential businesses to close. If they do force them then the govt. should be prepared to give grants. But if they are allowed to stay open it's unethical to horde and gouge customers during a demand spike, which is inevitable someone will. Like anyone, I smell opportunity as well. You can't force them to close AND fine them for price increases. They have livelihoods of their own.
The example shown was not necessarily just price gouging ( which would be an extreme inflation) but included all increases in price. Theoretically that could include anything higher than normal.
How much should things cost? (Please be specific.)
And when does raising the price on that item become "price gouging"?
Follow up: How do you incentivize a business to carry a product that they would lose money selling?
Dichotomy & Balance The government is having a hard time getting that grants money for struggling businesses.