Son, as I pass down my business. I feel you children need to know the 3 most important things to know about running a business. Your sisters are on their way.
Alright PAPA
First things first, I am telling you about scarcity. Resources may be limited and this affects what we produce, how we produce it, and for whom.
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So we as a business must make choices based on what the consumers want amd need
But how do we make those choices?
You have to look at the factors of production. This is resources, land, capital, labor, and entrprenuership.
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sorry we were eavesdropping.
Isn't an entrepreuer a person that uses those other things in order to make a new product?
Well firstly resources are necessary to produce what the poeple want or need. Land is society's limited natural resource, like animal life, minerals in rings etc.
Okay but how does these things contribute to our production?
Wow cool. But what the heck is capital?
And what does labor have anything to do with it?
I think labor is the work done by workers to get the product produced
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And isn't capital the stuff needed to produce goods or services? Like machines to make car parts?