Gas Station (Houston) charging $20 bucks a gallon for gas... (California, percentage, gas prices)

[lifeexplorer]

Originally Posted by FirebirdCamaro1220

We already named the polio vaccine.

And how about space exploration? No one profits off of that!

Did you not read my reply?

[oceangaia]

Originally Posted by Frank DeForrest

im not buying your book and now you're just rambling.
Also the thread is about the supposed evils of gouging, not charitable giving or voluntary aid ( which are of course admirable)

If you're going to allege that huge profits are needed as incentive in order to have effective disaster response, I am going to introduce charitable giving or voluntary aid as proof that you can have effective disaster response without financial incentive.

[oceangaia]

Originally Posted by lifeexplorer

Please name one advancement in human history that is not made by greed.

Not wasting a minute on that, we are talking about emergency response to disasters. Focus.

[oceangaia]

Originally Posted by lifeexplorer

If the incentive is high enough, people would risk their life to do it. I can't believe you refuse to see that.

Lots of people risked their lives to rescue victims for no incentive at all.

[lifeexplorer]

Originally Posted by oceangaia

If you're going to allege that huge profits are needed as incentive in order to have effective disaster response, I am going to introduce charitable giving or voluntary aid as proof that you can have effective disaster response without financial incentive.

Why can't we have both?

[lifeexplorer]

Originally Posted by oceangaia

Lots of people risked their lives to rescue victims for no incentive at all.

Charity does help people, but not in a meaningful way. Look at Africa, how much charity have we poured into it?

Capitalism has lifted more people from poverty than everything else combined.

[FirebirdCamaro1220]

Originally Posted by lifeexplorer

Charity does help people, but not in a meaningful way. Look at Africa, how much charity have we poured into it?

Capitalism has lifted more people from poverty than everything else combined.

While jacking up prices puts the customers into poverty by bleeding them dry

[lifeexplorer]

Originally Posted by FirebirdCamaro1220

While jacking up prices puts the customers into poverty by bleeding them dry

No business except for the government operates in that way.

If a price is too high except for the rich to afford, the price will come down, particularly when the profit is also high. If the price is high and margin is low, the price will remain high regardless.

[oceangaia]

Originally Posted by lifeexplorer

Charity does help people, but not in a meaningful way. Look at Africa, how much charity have we poured into it?

Not in a meaningful way? Now you're just embarrassing yourself.

[lifeexplorer]

Originally Posted by oceangaia

Not in a meaningful way? Now you're just embarrassing yourself.

I am not afraid of truth.

Charity is great and it does help some people.

Charity has never helped a society as a whole. Charity by no means is sustainable, and no amount of charity can lift a country or a large group of people out of poverty.