Oddbean

people who have water in a big pallet during a crisis were selling it before the crisis and are business people the argument is absurd you charge higher prices for higher demanded goods versus low demanded goods ie, the money is pretty much worthless in a disaster, so what's the problem exactly? not like the seller is going to go down to the casino and sniff coke off titties or anything i mean come on, it's a frickin disaster, and charging 2-4x normal prices is not putting a gun to anyone's head and equating the two things is just fucking disgusting, dishonest rhetoric used by socialist politicians to shift blame for their endless spending of borrowed money and the cosy relationship to the money printers a certain man did a bunch of table flips and whippings over this when priests and bankers colluded against the faithful there is zero relationship between someone asking a high price with low supply and cornering the market, said shopkeeper is probably going to lose their whole business anyway, or lose their shirt repairing after the damage, and so on and so on i just fucking hate socialists, and anyone who thinks that jesus was a socialist is teh worst kind of socialist