<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">And? What are your thoughts on Uber peak pricing? When all train service got stopped and I was stuck in Grand Central Terminal, prices immediately tripled for a trip home. I took a pass as I didn't want to pay them. Noone had a gun to my head to take an Uber. <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>When Sandy hit up here, gas cans to carry stuff home for generators were hard to come by. Prices were way above average for any that were left (everything was gone at "normal prices"). I needed both a can and a generator so I paid up for both, and they came in very handy that week with no power where I needed the generator to keep the boiler and refrigerator running. With price controls, there likely would have been none left of either when I got there to look for one.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>How are you sure that gas was so readily available within a given area, and if so, why weren't people heading to the ones who were not being arrested with lower prices?</div><div><br></div><div>Speculators are always an easy target.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 6:51 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">There was no lack of gasoline during the Katrina hurricane disaster, yet prices went way up. And the people that did it got arrested. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 5:44 PM Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>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... <br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 13, 2020, 6:10 PM Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">lol<div><br></div><div>But isn't that a bad thing?</div><div>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.</div><div>That's what supply and demand is, right?</div><div>Brent</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 3:40 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> [ExI] one good thing<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">bill w<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Muwaaaahahahaaaaaaa…<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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