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How do you give consumers money and say "Do not spend this on toilet paper. The paper products industry is a max capacity and cannot produce any more TP. It wil
by bob33212 7y ago
How do you give consumers money and say "Do not spend this on toilet paper. The paper products industry is a max capacity and cannot produce any more TP. It will only cause inflation"
In a free market people are going to spend money on whatever they want. Maybe you offer refunds for industries which need to be restarted?
- throw0101a 7y ago> How do you give consumers money and say "Do not spend this on toilet paper. The paper products industry is a max capacity and cannot produce any more TP. It will only cause inflation" 1. Where will people actually store this very bulky commodity? 2. Staring at the wall of TP that has been collected, people will realize 'I will have to poop a lot to use up all of this'. 3. Once they realize they have a nine month supply of TP, and the space it is taking up, they will not buy TP for nine months so TP manufacturers may experience a reduction in demand in the not-too-distant future. It is certainly possible for a spike in prices (inflation) for TP (or whatever) to occur as people 'panic buy' supplies, but that spike will subside as people realize they've stock piled enough to last them the length of the shutdown.