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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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.