From a brain so smooth it could be used to define the kilogram
This is such asinine libertarian tech-brain. My favourite tell:
Perhaps the state should later reward the store for this, especially if the store is assaulted by lots of such people.
"such people" being the sick, poor, or disabled.
you should feel disgust at the scarcity, not the merchant trying to conserve the resource.
THE SCARCITY THAT YOU CREATED BY HOARDING THE RESOURCE BECAUSE YOU'RE INCENTIVISED TO BY BEING ALLOWED TO PRICE GOUGE
Also, the video game recommendation at the end is a game about surviving in a post-apocalyptic wasteland where any random person is a threat who could kill you for your backpack and the rich have sealed themselves in the walled city of new-Denver. Hilariously fitting.
There's a comment section that doesn't hold posts for moderation and requires no login or emails to post.
I couldn't help myself.
The number of people in /r/linux or whatever that believe free software is better only in technical aspect and don't understand that Stallman et al. are heading a political project.
I do know that in Introduction to Microeconomics, we're taught that if there is a price ceiling set below the equilibrium price, then not enough supply will be produced to meet demand, leading to a shortage.
That said, by this defintion, a shortage is not when people lack the supplies that they need, but when not everyone (who can afford to) is able to purchase supplies at the market price.
Price gouging is still a disgusting practice either way.
It's really kind of disturbing seeing all these issues affecting low-income individuals just being abstracted away into numbers and figures.
I suppose this type of thing is what makes it easy for ancaps like OP to justify price gouging.
So glad my country banned price gouging during covid and at least tried to enforce it with fines, this article is pure :galaxy-brain:
There was a good post on r/leftwithoutedge a while back that completely refuted this concept from a socdem perspective. Although if you don't confine yourself to a reformist perspective, it isn't really a thing that needs to be refuted: it's a psychotic idea that is proof of the idiocy of capitalism
Banning price gouging ensures the disappearance of the profit, and therefore, the resources.
when real life is more accurate than the picture in your head
I kind of want to send that pic of Big-dicked Jar Jar Binks to this guy's email address or something
I first went through this as a teenager during hurricane Katrina. It was absolutely stunning to witness it directly after the hurricane when many of us were lucky to still be alive.
Since then, I've noticed it with every hurricane I've been through since then.
