jet_heller t1_jcilgpt wrote on March 17, 2023 at 2:13 AM

Reply to comment by JBluehawk21 in A genie says to an alcoholic drifter, "You have three wishes, what would you like for your first wish"? by StraightDildo

An infinite amount of money, one might say.

Lord_Havelock t1_jcj75nq wrote on March 17, 2023 at 5:37 AM

No, because you'll eventually oversupply the market, and your product will lose value.

Of course you could still become very rich by selling it rationally, but try for infinite and you'll either crash your business, or the entire economy.

Groinificator t1_jcjtcnt wrote on March 17, 2023 at 10:44 AM

I doubt an entire economy would crash over just an oversupply of alcohol

Also, isn't alcohol a pretty non-durable good? It's not like someone gets a single drink and is done. You can sell alcohol to the same person plenty of times...

Lord_Havelock t1_jcktm1t wrote on March 17, 2023 at 3:43 PM

Oh sure. Like I said you could absolutely make a ton of money. Just not infinite.

And as realistically unlikely as you alone crashing the global economy is, it would still happen before you got infinite money.

Groinificator t1_jclzugx wrote on March 17, 2023 at 8:14 PM

Fair enough

jet_heller t1_jck1brl wrote on March 17, 2023 at 12:10 PM

You'll only oversupply the market if you sell it off quickly. If instead, you sell several dozen to a hundred shots out of it every day in your own little bar you will never do that.