It does work in some cases. I need some bleach to help clean out the condensation line in my AC unit. I looked and Amazon's lowest price that I could get in a

It does work in some cases. I need some bleach to help clean out the condensation line in my AC unit. I looked and Amazon's lowest price that I could get in a short amount of time was around $30/gallon. I pretty quickly decided that hot water was working well enough for the moment. It also doesn't really prevent gouging, it just moves it to a private market. I'm fairly confident I could get toilet paper at any time on eBay if I needed it and was willing to pay the prices. The same people who cannot afford the gouged prices likely do not have a schedule flexible enough to constantly check whether the grocery store has toilet paper in stock. Meanwhile, those of us with cushy tech jobs can check out for 15 minutes to go check if there's toilet paper in the store. I think the unfortunate reality is that nothing short of rationing adequately addresses the problem. Rationing has it's own set of issues.