Is it easier to buy something or sell something?

Mondo Social Updated on 2024-02-03

When chatting with my mother, I said that she was in a hurry to marry her daughter, like selling something, and my mother came to ask rhetorically: Is it easier to buy things or sell things?

I instinctively replied: of course, to buy something.

In hindsight, this answer was not quite right.

The premise of buying something is that you have the capital, the capital to exchange with the seller.

At least the seller has ownership of the item, and whether the buyer has the capital to match it is still uncertain.

If you think about it, it's not right to say that it's easier for the seller to do something.

It depends on the supply and demand of the market, and it depends on who has more advantages on the supply side or the demand side.

If the supply is greater than the demand, it means that the number of sellers in this market is greater than the number of buyers, which is more favorable to the buyers.

On the contrary, there are fewer sellers and more buyers in this market, and it is the sellers who are more dominant.

I learned in economics before, but I didn't expect a question from my mother that made me pull it out of my head.

The instinctive reaction is because most of the time, I play the role of a buyer, and I can buy what I want with money.

If you ask a question to different people, you will have different answers, because they have different roles and different experiences.

And the theoretical knowledge learned before, there is a very important assumption: a rational person.

Sometimes I really want to be a single-celled organism, the kind of animal that can't see tomorrow when you use your brain.

Hey.

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