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"Profit is market inefficiency" Profit is motive to do something.

No profit = no motive.

"perfect efficiency" means "no market" in this definition. It's a make believe process that will literally never happen. Companies that work with perfect efficiency close their doors.




Well, sorta but um no. If no profit includes a situation where everyone involved is paid at least enough that they are willing to do the work, then there is by definition motive to do the work.

These economic models are simplistic to the point of stupidity. But motivation to do the work can be totally priced in to the equations as a cost of doing business. Profit beyond that is what must, in the models, end up at zero to be efficient.


Everyone involved includes those who put forth the capital to start businesses. The profit goes to them eventually via the stock market.

Individuals won't put up millions or billions to start large companies without a reason.

"models" remove human motivations and will never be realistic.

It's why Socialism and Communism are perfect on paper... but fail spectacularly in real life.


Not necessarily the stock market, but yes of course all models are wrong. Some are useful though, including these models. You can see that a pharma company with a government granted monopoly with patent power has high gross margins, while a more undifferentiated retail firm like walmart has far lower gross margins. That understanding can be drawn from using these models to understand how businesses will behave under a set of given assumptions (they want to maximize profit etc)


Yep. Perfect markets dont actually exist in any realistic way, and the US constitution itself deliberately breaks perfect markets by providing for patents.




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