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If you make it punishable by prison time to charge more than some unknowable fair amount of money to make drugs, then nobody will make drugs. If you make it no
by aetherson 9y ago
If you make it punishable by prison time to charge more than some unknowable fair amount of money to make drugs, then nobody will make drugs.
If you make it not a crime to deceive investors and misuse their money, then rich people won't invest their money, they will keep it in vaults.
I consider "a world in which people who don't want to risk prison are still able to make drugs" and "a world in which capital is invested instead of hoarded" to be noble goals.
- viraptor 9y ago> If you make it punishable by prison time to charge more than some unknowable fair amount of money to make drugs, then nobody will make drugs. That's not true. First because price gouging laws already exist, so it's not entirely unknowable - especially if this rule became a law. Second, because once it's known, it's like any other existing limit. If you pay people lower than minimal legal wage, you're liable - that hasn't stopped everyone from hiring.
- aetherson 9y agoPrice gouging laws are generally applied only during emergencies, and ones that aren't are not, to my knowledge, well-enforced or constitutionally tested.