Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 22, 2021

Lemme give you some interest on that loan of sand. Open wide…

More like anti-competitive monopoly power, no? (and there would have to be more than one link for it to be a supply “chain”)

This is genius. A lot of the “supply chain problems” are companies trying to get back lost revenue from weak demand in 2020.

I say sic Danae on him.

Comes with a free packet of cat poop.

The CEO of Sand, Inc is Chinese and a close friend of The Big Guy.

The only problem is, unless he has some muscle to back him up, it should be pretty easy to overpower him and take the sand back

Many parts of our economy are now dominated by only two, or at most three, “competing” corporations which watch each other and together have what amounts to monopoly power. They are now in the position to raise the price of “sand” without any real fear of competition. They can blame those price increases on “the supply chain,” or wages, or parts shortages, but in any case their profits are well-protected, even enhanced, and you and I can just bend over because they’re driving… If you want the details: https://robertreich.org/post/667491205931745280

One way or another he’s trying to get kids to play with him.

The dangerous bullies aren’t those that take what’s yours, but those that take ALL of “X” in order to wield power, control and get us to do what we normally would not.

Nothing ventured, nothing grained.

The new economy, same as the old economy but worse.

No monopolies, no Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Sue the liars like a newspaper

He might well find himself unprepared to deal with all his overhead and not be able to dig himself out from under it. Then the hedge funds will come in until their bubble bursts again.

The hardware store sells “ All American Brown Play Sand” 50 lb $4.99

The thing about keeping people from what they want is that soon enough they will find a substitute and you will have a lot of stuff that people don’t want.

In 1973, during the oil embargo, I had the opportunity to fly over New York Harbor. I saw about 100 tankers in the waters off the New Jersey shore. ALL of them were low in the water. They were just waiting for the price of oil to go up before pumping it on shore.

I wonder if something like this is at work today. Let demand drive the prices up before delivering the goods.

Does he live in a big castle?

Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole.

- Karl Marx

One good avalanche…

And you can only pay in crypto-currency.

Not realizing that, in this instance, there are 4 of you and only 1 of him.

Free market capitalism in action.

I work for a company that designs equipment for solids handling. I can tell you that bully is due for a comeuppance in the form of a pile collapse.

That’s not pure sand if it stacks like that. I’d hold out for good quality sand. (And I haven’t seen any Metallica references, yet.)

A sand shortage? The world is running out of a crucial — but under-appreciated — commodity https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/05/sand-shortage-the-world-is-running-out-of-a-crucial-commodity.html

Yeah this clown is cruzzing for a bruising.

Reminds me of the Federal Reserve.

I’m no customer. My “garden” is nothing but sand.

It’s called an excuse to price gouge, but call it supply side economics.

The larger problem is too many monopolies and near monopolies that will make agreements amongst one another to jack the prices up.

A true free market wouldn’t have a stock market. Businesses would have to succeed or fail on their own. Not be bolstered by outside forces, with outside interests.

Very old school. Control of land and water was the foundation of many ancient kingdoms.

Rome’s BOCCA DELLA VERITA—-or “Mouth of Truth”.

An ancient marble mask,which according to legend will bite the hand off anybody who has told a lie.

The idea is that you place your hand inside the mouth of the lartge,sculptured mask and then let the magic of theBOCCA DELLA VErITA be your lie detector.

Any volunteers?Especially on the losing side?

Is that Jeff Bezo’s son?

There are four of you. Pick him up and insert him headfirst into the sand pile. Repeat as necessary.

He does appear to have cornered the market on Stolen Sand

Why nothing from 35-45? He could write JFK.

The Playground Bully doesn’t appear to be doing a particularly roaring trade. And after all that work, piling the sand up one end.