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One man's gouging is another man's market at work. Would your opinion of this man change if he had stockpiled hand sanitizer a year ago?
by pg_bot 7y ago
One man's gouging is another man's market at work. Would your opinion of this man change if he had stockpiled hand sanitizer a year ago?
- abiogenesis 7y agoIt's not the same thing as stockpiling a year ago wouldn't have caused a shortage.
- pg_bot 7y agoSo why is the crime the same for both people? Also, if he didn't plan on selling the sanitizer then we wouldn't have any (legal) problem with his actions. You can buy all you want with no consequence.
- MperorM 7y agoWell the (in my opinion flawed) idea is to remove the incentive for buying that much in the first place. Say what you want, but someone receiving this enormous an amount of social shaming on top of a painful economic loss, sure is going to disincentivise people from pulling similar stunts in the future.
- salawat 7y agoIf he'd stockpiled a year ago, it wouldn't have been in a state of emergency for one. If he still gouged after the declaration of a state of emergency though, he'd still be liable for breaking the law. It is not that hard to be a responsible member of society and to not jeopardize the well being of widespread geographical areas in the hopes of profiting off a crisis.