Cockshott General
even a relatively quick noise gate, or FFT EQ (such as with ReaFir) would help get rid of the noise quickly. I guess it's just that he's not a power user on consumer technology
He replies to all comments so why don't you leave one on the aforementioned video outlining the A/V issues and perhaps offering him some advice or links to guides?
Before that, TallRedFox says:
TallRedFox either lies or misremembers fictional examples with demand curves (indeed standard econ textbooks are full of those) as real ones. But that picture without the rest of the conversation does not make Cockshott look good. I'm pretty sure that Cockshott does believe in the rule of thumb that people tend to buy lower quantities of a good when its price is raised, it's just that we don't have data about how much the quantity changes with price, and because of all sorts of dependencies having the full data about that (which economic actors aren't asked and don't have an incentive to actually accurately tell you) wouldn't be something neatly fitting into a thinly drawn curve. E. g. if I'm in the habit of making a snack of certain ingredients, and ingredient X gets more expensive while ingredient Y gets cheaper to such a degree that on a whole, the snack gets cheaper, I might buy more of ingredient X even though it got more expensive. Also, expectations about future price changes affect how I act today, and it's not that I compare the price to some inner invariant (genetic?) measure of what a "just" price is. I don't even know about all products out there that are similar to what I regularly consume, so if there is a drastic hike in price for such a thing, I get an incentive to look for alternatives, then maybe I find something that I end up strongly preferring, so when the original thing goes back to its old price, I don't come back to it. There are more complications.
I just thought the comment was funny and it shows he has a sense of humor, making him look bad wasn't my intention. Anyone curious enough can easily find the context on his blog.
Is that you Mr. Cockshott? :^)
I don't think any sane Marxist denies this. Marx himself repeatedly stated that supply and demand do have an effect on prices, but it only causes temporary oscillations around the actual value.
kek
HOLY SHIT COCKSHOTT BTFO I'M LITERALLY s h a k i n g HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED
anyway
wew, lad
WEW, LAD
