No, Krugman is making the point (in his whole blog post) that price "gouging" allocates resources in the best possible way, and that our emotional response to i

No, Krugman is making the point (in his whole blog post) that price "gouging" allocates resources in the best possible way, and that our emotional response to it sometimes confounds this "first best" outcome. Which is actually a good description of the debate we're having here (on the broader thread). You keep saying "your personal cash flow" as if I or Krugman or others actually do make a buck off selling services to those in distress. I work in climate policy; I don't sell anything. You seem to think it's not even possible for me to actually, really, think that our natural, emotional responses to price "gouging" does us a disservice. I don't have anything to gain except a world that works a bit better.