More often than not price gouging just makes things worse. During the early days of the pandemic you couldn’t find toilet paper in stores, but there were people

More often than not price gouging just makes things worse. During the early days of the pandemic you couldn’t find toilet paper in stores, but there were people set up one the road side willing to sell it you for crazy prices. Did these people manage to setup an international supply chain to furnish their road side store? Almost certainly not, they cleaned out the supermarkets ahead of other people. The same thing happened with the colonial pipeline hack.