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I wish this were true but instantly I think tobacco, alcohol and gambling. Also where do you draw the line? Should Walmart be able to charge so much to a strugg
by 14 7y ago
I wish this were true but instantly I think tobacco, alcohol and gambling. Also where do you draw the line? Should Walmart be able to charge so much to a struggling single mom who has to choose between eating herself and feeding her baby? There is no easy solutions to this but I ultimately think big corporations try and maximize their profits at any cost every single day and no one says Walmart or whoever sells these masks should sell them at cost.
- ghaff 7y agoThey probably sell them at a low percentage markup and you can be sure there would be an uproar if they suddenly jacked up prices 5x.
- perl4ever 7y agoWhat is the cost of a mask when the capacity of the existing factories is tapped out and (in principle) one more mask requires a new factory? It's fuzzy when that point comes exactly, but it kind of has to exist. If you want to say the cost of masks is exactly what current operations require, then that one mask must be millions and millions of dollars. So who pays for it?