quarta-feira, 3 de setembro de 2025

The Law of Supply and Demand

The Law of Supply and Demand

It's not unfamiliar to economists, although some professionals doubt it, and even more absurd matters, from the sphericity of the Earth, to the landing of man on the moon, to the existence of two genders—everything can be questioned, but only the scientific method of scientific research can separate pertinent doubt from pure stubbornness.

The law of supply and demand for scarce goods began in the systematic studies of political economy, which became known simply as an autonomous economic science, with its parameterized statistical methods called econometric modeling supported by the theory of social behavior and the method of induced conclusions, the famous inductivist method based on large numbers, which is nothing more than the statistical sample validated by standard error control processes such as the standard deviation and by hypothesis testing methods such as the chi-square method, linear regression, multiple regression, and sampling error control.

All this demonstrates that, when it comes to the laws of social behaviorism, the statistical method presupposes a tendency—if not the only way to measure and compare behaviors—in line with social expectations.

Any scarce good produces a demand behavior similar to what is called the law of supply and demand. That is, when something is offered to more people than can be met in a given timeframe, this good can be overvalued due to its scarcity, regardless of its usefulness. The desire for more people to have access, exceeding availability, produces a distortion that generates extreme valuation. This valuation doesn't always correspond to the cost of production, nor does it even correspond to the satisfaction of enjoying the highly demanded good, as happened with the desire to own tulips in the Netherlands, which generated the paradigm of the tulip bubble fraud, the last desired good being sold for the price of a house in Amsterdam.

Now you'll say it was collective madness to reach this paroxysm simply because of a race to show off with a tulip and demonstrate your economic power and social prestige with a rare and scarce tulip.

After the bubble passed, tulips were forgotten and became part of the anecdotes of fools, and the list of bizarre things society constructs around social values, as sociologist Durkheim studied about society and social acts as objects of study.

There is a commodity that has remained scarce for at least five thousand years—a profession exclusively practiced by women, stemming from the scarcity of supply, whose monopoly still exercises the right of access—that is, prostitution.

Never in the history of human culture has there been a supply of professionally structured and permanent male sex, without competition for the service of female prostitution, explained only by the law of supply and demand.

The availability of access to women explains the constant demand, never interrupted by any other factor, nor can it be changed by moral, religious, police, or political laws. Prostitution persists as an economic market factor due to the scarcity of female supply and the availability of access to female sex, which is always restricted and scarce.

The law of gravity and the law of supply and demand cannot be revoked, and communists discovered this. Yet, in countries that stubbornly try to regulate human desires regarding access to a scarce commodity, they have had to coexist with the so-called black market, whether for narcotic drugs, the prohibition against alcohol consumption, or scarce consumer goods like ration cards for everything in Cuba, and the eternal female prostitution.

The first thing to do is to recognize the reality of the scarcity of female sex supply, and accept that this supply is mitigated, although we do not know the origin and the social, physiological or psychological mechanisms, or hormonal reasons and libidinal reasons, the truth is in the indisputable fact that the lack of female sexual supply in civilization produces this eternal dependence on the sex worker in all societies, in all places and at all times.

Roberto da Silva Rocha, professor universitário e cientista político

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