Yesterday some dude posted a video to shame apparently Indian gas station owners charging $10 a gallon around the Hurricane Helene disaster area. The lolberts answered with rebuttals that free market pricing is the best rationing mechanism in a time of scarcity.
People are saying that the gas station could ration gallons per customer and keep the same price, and the lolberts are saying this is communist price control.
I'm not really sure how much merit is held by either position since I've never really thought about this with respect to a disaster area. Clearly the 1973 price controls were a bad idea, but this is a debate over what a private business owner should do after a hurricane. My gut feeling is that gas should be rationed by customer, not by pricing. But maybe the gas station is passing along supply chain pricing to a certain extent?
edit: Texas punished gas price gouging in 2019 after Hurricane Harvey.
Its not difficult, its just trying to dodge what I said by pulling it into increasingly complex discussions. Its the the classic MO of someone who caught themselves in cognitive dissonance and is trying to run around it.
Because the long term consequences of doing such is the business closes down and then the neighborhood is left without any access to such goods. As we see happening across most ghettos.
For the same reason the gas guy is making 0$ for the other 6 days of the week after his entire supply is emptied because the entire chain is disrupted and he will be needing those increased profits during the first day to offset that.
There is no morality needed, which is why I didn't deny the gas guy is still probably a shit. Its basic logic and reasoning. Helped by the fact that I've lived through dozens of hurricanes and can verify my position with actual experience instead of "well philosophically speaking" nonsense.
Ha ha. Project much?
You just answered the question of why we shouldn't allow it, not why joggers shouldn't loot. You get nothing and your neighbor gets a $500 TV for free because you're concerned over the long-term consequences which will inevitably happen anyway because the market says take the free TV? Good luck with that.
Looting and gouging are what people do when they are allowed to, because they benefit from it. If you want a Laissez-faire market where people do what benefits themselves then you should commit to it.
I didn't think "if business no make money business don't stay open" was very complex, but since you seem so it puts your inability to grasp a point into perspective.
But I should have known you were firing on zero cylinders when you said "insurance will cover it." Because that's the funniest idiocy I've seen in weeks.
Yes, niggers (we are free to say it here, you don't have to be scared to say it) have impulse control problems which lead to constant issues cropping up for their life. They've been doing it for so long that those "long-term consequences" have already started and are happening regularly. That's why no one likes them.
But you've also backpedaled from "its not even capitalism" to "its morally bankrupt bad capitalism I don't like" so I'll accept your concession.
All you have is insults and invective. Pathetic!
The first insults were yours, pendejo. I simply continued with them when it became obvious you were going to just make up new definitions or dodge points entirely when you couldn't answer them.