If you ran a bakery and nobody bought your blueberry muffins on Monday, you would bake fewer of them on Tuesday.
i might. but if i knew national blueberry day was tuesday, i might bake more. or i might increase advertising. or i might lobby to mandate blueberry muffins in school, prison, and military foods. or i could choose a thousand other courses of action. and someone’s choice to buy my muffins, or not, cannot be said to decide for me. i get to make my own decisions.
i might. but if i knew national blueberry day was tuesday, i might bake more. or i might increase advertising. or i might lobby to mandate blueberry muffins in school, prison, and military foods. or i could choose a thousand other courses of action. and someone’s choice to buy my muffins, or not, cannot be said to decide for me. i get to make my own decisions.
You are now arguing that because a business owner has agency, that consumer demand magically ceases to be the primary engine of production.
This is a category error. You are confusing the mechanism by which a business fights for survival with the source of its funding.
not magically, and not ceases. because a business owner has agency, no other agent can be said to cause them to act.