“Playback is a b*itch”
Playback for what? Selling you something? Well, if you don’t wanna pay don’t buy. This is why it’s crazy to criminalize “gouging,” aside from the economic stupidity. Charging a higher price doesn’t harm anyone because exchange is voluntary.
Unless you think the items on their shelves are community property and they hold them in trust and are morally obliged not to bake a profit off them in times of disaster. That’s a moral system of some kind, I suppose, though I don’t recognize it nor really understand it. But then we come back to the economic side. If you think it’s wrong to profit off of misery and that refusing to sell at below market prices is somehow harming the buyer, just know that customers will take advantage if lower prices by not showing concern for the community in refusing to ration according to need.
It especially irks me that government ties after “gougers” and sits idly by watching looters. Lesson: violence works.
“Charging a higher price doesn’t harm anyone because exchange is voluntary.”
Yep - it’s better than the alternate alternative (no product at all...)