Thomas Sowell wrote about the dangers of something he called "The Bar of Reason."
It addressed an interesting qwirk of human nature, the tendency to overestimate our own intelligence....and underestimate the need for intellectual context...knowledge.
In Sowell's example, someone holds an opinion not only wrong, but ignorant...and when called on it, says, "I'm a bright guy...explain it to me."
Unfortunately, his example needed about two year's of schooling before he could even qualify to take part in a basic discussion.
I'm not, repeat not, trying to be mean...but ignorance of economics is endemic in the US today, and it's dangerous when combined with the arrogance of entitlement.
Not just the sense of entitlement to cheap gasoline, mind you...but the sense that because you have the right to an opinion, you have the right to have it be taken seriously.
You obviously know little, if anything, about economics...and there's no other tool to understand markets, other than economics.
Primitives in bearskins with spears had no framework, no context for understanding what happened around them. They invented one...it involved mysterious, malevolent spirits.
Latter-day primitives don't use the same vocabulary, but the meaning is similar...now the evil spirits are big business, liberals, etc...and conspiracies are everywhere.
Your notion, simply put, doesn't even stand up to the most casual analysis. Yet, because you obviously know so little about economics, there's no way to explain it to you...and no way for you to know when someone is conning you.
You obviously don't understand what a commodity market is...and you don't know how little the actions of one relatively small producer can move price. You don't understand that in most cases, any individual producer will harm profits, not increase them, by following your "rationale."
You obviously don't understand that "markets are the messenger."
What's more, you seem to have an "intellectual hard on" toward business (there are more polished ways to describe it, but your...I won't even call it an opinion...it's more of an attitude, makes it fit well.)
It's scary, because you're probably better informed, relatively speaking, and you vote. Yet, you're not just wrong...you're obviously ignorant.
Wrong can be addressed in a discussion. Ignorance requires schooling...and a certain humility on the part of the schooled.
I've always wanted to ask these questions...
Would you want to have surgery from someone who wasn't a doctor, but had really strong opinions about surgery?
Do you believe politicians who pass laws to regulate business should have some knowledge of economics?
Do you believe that voters, who bear ultimate responsibility in our system, should have some knowledge of economics?
Do you believe that all opinions have the same validity?
Please humor me...
I might be able to engage in discourse with you except that nothing in your stream of non-specific statements makes any attempt at making an actual point. The ad hominem style is unflattering to one who apparently fancies themselves an intellectual. Is a “business hard on” a good thing or a bad?