[ExI] one good thing

[Dylan Distasio]

Yes, if you believe in markets it's a terrible thing.  Prices ration
available supply.  Price controls (or this) are never productive in the
long term and increase black market transactions and scarcity in legitimate
ones...

On Fri, Mar 13, 2020, 6:10 PM Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> lol
>
> But isn't that a bad thing?
> If I wanted to pay $100 for TP, I never would, but if I did, possibly for
> something I'd really want, I'd be very upset at Amazon for denying me that
> opportunity.
> That's what supply and demand is, right?
> Brent
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> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 3:40 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> > *On Behalf Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
>> *Subject:* [ExI] one good thing
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>> Amazon has deleted over 500K of products that were gouging consumers on
>> products such as masks.  Some had upped their price over ten times normal.
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>> bill w
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>> Muwaaaahahahaaaaaaa…
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>> I stocked up on TP early, before the panic, so that I could make a
>> buttload reselling at absurd prices on the Dark Web.  I expect the peak to
>> be reached soon, at which time I shift into phase 2 of my nefarious plan,
>> which is providing a use for all their stockpiled twenty-year supply of TP:
>> I sell them (at a scandalous profit) my stockpiled ExLax.
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>> spike
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