“While the pricing of consumer goods and services is generally best left to the marketplace under ordinary conditions...” They forget to mention that the marke

“While the pricing of consumer goods and services is generally best left to the marketplace under ordinary conditions...” They forget to mention that the marketplace is highly optimized at the foundation to make this bullshit. There’s no open marketplace. The government protects concepts like inflation which is the deflation of buying power of the masses to prop up the power of aristocrats. I have zero qualms with government stepping in to actually create some pricing competition. Financial “value” is not a property of an objection reality. It’s a human ideology. No one in economics disputes this. And somehow we’re convinced old gits dumber than us, outnumbered us have sold us on truth of markets. They pray on confusing and controlling our innate behavior to model our future. “Oh guess my model will be these cube walls forever.” And I’m talking specifically about the bulk producers of basic human needs, food, material supplies, medicine. How shallow and self aggrandizing America as a culture is is on display right now. A weak ass people who coddle old gits because they can’t source local TP, and toothpaste? The people are so incapable of absorbing a true calamity in this nation is frightening.