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How was Polio vaccine manufactured and delivered? Invention is one thing, but manufacturing and distribution is another. Thousands of inventions are sitting in the patent offices like farts in the wind.
How was penicillin manufactured and delivered? Invention is one thing, but manufacturing and distribution is another. Thousands of inventions are sitting in the patent offices like farts in the wind.
Too bad many people would suffer and die because of law, and you people are in support of them dying.
FANTASTIC!
Show me one piece of EVIDENCE where someone died because they couldn't get supplies, and where that was caused from anti-gouging. Just ONE PIECE. We will all wait on pins and needles.
As often happens in disaster areas, the government in Texas has made it illegal to raise prices above a reasonable amount (such as $50 for water or $5000 for a generator), citing that this is victimizing already battered residents.
The problem with price controls (just like in Venezuela) is everyone hoards and cleans out the shelves even if they don't need the supplies. When you let the market work, people will pay the actual value of goods and there will be enough supply and incentive for outsiders to get down there and bring in more materials.
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there should be no price controls. A free market will increase supply as needed during a disaster. Price controls limit supply.
Nobody will refuse to sell their products when they can make a profit.
Nobody has a problem with people making a fair and just profit in a disaster area. But when someone chooses to sell a 99¢ bottle of water for $1000, that's morally corrupt and is against the law. We have rules in our society to minimize suffering. Theft, assault, murder, and a host of other acts deemed reprehensible by society are illegal. Every society since the dawn of time has had laws to live by in order to achieve the same goal.
These laws that you hate so much were enacted by the representatives of the people who live in these areas because that's what they wanted. If you want them changed then I suggest you come down here, put your face on TV and plead your case. See how far you get with it. But be warned before you make the trip, we are not responsible for your safety should you undertake such an endeavor. In short, you're on your own.
the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service:
Therefore, a store who is the only store accessible to the people control the supply of the commodities they sell. Hence, they are the textbook definition of a monopoly.
Your anti-gouging point doesn't make any sense whatsoever. There are zero (count them) companies who will refuse to ship in supplies to disaster areas because they cannot make the profit they want to make. This goes back to the corporate responsibility piece that you ignored earlier on. Companies ALL work together to bring in supplies to help their fellow man. It is one of the few times in our country that you will find people putting down their political/religious beliefs and working together for the common good. The incentive has already been explained ad-nauseum.
Nobody has a problem with people making a fair and just profit in a disaster area. But when someone chooses to sell a 99¢ bottle of water for $1000, that's morally corrupt and is against the law. We have rules in our society to minimize suffering. Theft, assault, murder, and a host of other acts deemed reprehensible by society are illegal. Every society since the dawn of time has had laws to live by in order to achieve the same goal.
These laws that you hate so much were enacted by the representatives of the people who live in these areas because that's what they wanted. If you want them changed then I suggest you come down here, put your face on TV and plead your case. See how far you get with it. But be warned before you make the trip, we are not responsible for your safety should you undertake such an endeavor. In short, you're on your own.
But you are fine with people dying because of your anti-price gouging law.
Show me one piece of EVIDENCE where someone died because they couldn't get supplies, and where that was caused from anti-gouging. Just ONE PIECE. We will all wait on pins and needles.
Last time I checked, nobody keeps those stats. And it's not just about deaths.
But I guess you think there is no need for additional supplies.
A guy who sold me water at the normal price might save me. A guy who charged $99 for it? Not so much.
I'm pretty much finished with you, as your absurdities are giving me brain damage, or at the least, a severe headache. Thank God I still have a few Advil around, and don't have to pay $200 per capsule.
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