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>Protections like this are useful in the short term. Explain how this "protection" will stop the stated problem of people hoarding and reselling. Since when h
by daenz 7y ago
>Protections like this are useful in the short term.
Explain how this "protection" will stop the stated problem of people hoarding and reselling. Since when have fines or punishment stopped black markets from existing?
>It already failed so I don't see why suggesting the status quo is useful.
"The car brakes couldn't decelerate the car fast enough, they failed, so I don't see why suggesting better brakes is useful." Decentralized, free market pricing is enormously robust and flexible and has allowed the global economy to flourish. But since it has failed you, what would you like to replace it with?
- jayd16 7y agoIf you don't think any laws are successful and we shouldn't use them then I don't know what to tell you. How about parking tickets or a million other behaviors we shape through fines? Free markets work in the long term but as they say the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
- daenz 7y agoI understand how laws shape behavior, but I also believe that for a law to be effective, it has to be worth the effort to enforce it. This law doesn't protect anyone, as you stated it would, unless the government is spending its limited resources chasing down TP resellers and confiscating their goods. It certainly isn't going to stop the hoarding.