Economics: The Value of "Price Gouging"

[DBTrek]

I’m responding directly to your assertion that ticket scalpers and people shuttling commodities into disaster areas are the cause of scarcity. It’s an incorrect assertion. You can chant NPC all day, it won’t flip an erroneous claim into a fact.

[Fife]

Spoiler alert: Ticket scalpers perform a valuable service.

[DBTrek]

Spoiler alert: Ticket scalpers perform a valuable service.

Chime on in chimey-chimerson. With backup like this who needs rampaging gunmen to level the economic inequalities of earth?

BANG!

[Fife]

From that notorious evil-doer, Walter Block.

From Part IV of Defending the Undefendable, "Outlaw." Read by Jeff Riggenbach. [14:20]

[Speaker to Animals]

I’m responding directly to your assertion that ticket scalpers and people shuttling commodities into disaster areas are the cause of scarcity. It’s an incorrect assertion. You can chant NPC all day, it won’t flip an erroneous claim into a fact.

More NPC scripting.

I was not referring to people "shuttling in commodities". I am talking about people creating artificial scarcities.

Your Sowell book does not have any answer to this because this is the actual problem.

[DBTrek]

More NPC scripting from StA. He can’t show examples of scalpers nor independent commodity suppliers creating scarcity, so he attacks me and Sowell over and over and over. His programming isn’t even object oriented, it’s BASIC.

10 PRINT “YOU ARE AN NPC.”
20 GOTO 10

Zzzzzzz

[Speaker to Animals]

Tucker: What do you have to say about pro-aborts trying to legalize infanticide?

SJW NPC: OMFG Why do you want to control women's bodies???



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StA: What do you plan to do about gougers creating artificial scarcity of necessities that could make the difference between life and death?


Neocon/libertarian NPC: OMFG Why do you want imprison people trying to bring in life-saving commodities??




I guess this is what happens with shallow programming..

/shrug

[DBTrek]

StA: What do you plan to do about gougers creating artificial scarcity of necessities that could make the difference between life and death?

DB: I say the scarcity existed before the gougers, the gougers did not create it.

StA: REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

/shrug

[Speaker to Animals]

Where it existed naturally, I have no trouble with raising prices. Can you not process that point and move the fuck on, bot? You are stuck in a non-terminal while loop, it seems.

[GloryofGreece]

Spoiler alert: Ticket scalpers perform a valuable service.

Sure thing.