The people who will donate their time, gas and energy to supply water to those who need it will not vanish if we allow prices to fluctuate freely. But we do los

The people who will donate their time, gas and energy to supply water to those who need it will not vanish if we allow prices to fluctuate freely. But we do lose the resources of those who are not willing, or cannot afford, to donate their time and energy for free. Empathy would be better directed toward donating money to the needy so they can purchase the things they need at the higher market prices. Price fixing may feel empathetic, but if it actually makes the scarcity problems worse, it's not.