When disaster strikes, like a fire, flood, hurricane, or an epidemic, and utilities and supply chains get disrupted, you might see much higher prices for goods that yesterday were cheap. This is called price gouging. For instance, in 2017 after hurricane Harvey struck Texas, in some locations gas prices shot …
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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.
This is such asinine libertarian tech-brain. My favourite tell:
"such people" being the sick, poor, or disabled.
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.