Posted on 03/15/2020 12:20:47 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Look at this, already they have a petition up against this guy. How about they hold one for the Communist indoctrination centers that use to be known as Universities that price gouge tuition?
What about bacon?
Tell that the to nursing homes and hospitals that could use the supplies in a much more meaningful way than this fool.
Interesting that the Lord addressed the Matt Colvin mindset millennia ago.
Luke 12:19-20
But as long as the sauce doesn't contain sugar, it's Keto-Friendly, which is good for the immune system.
Is 1 person hoarding 100 items he won’t use actually worse than 100 people hoarding 1 item each they won’t actually use?
At least the 1 has incentive to sell. The 100 ensure nobody can get the 100 extra.
Totally agree.
That’s why I think our society is on borrowed time.
It’s evil, period.
I know how to kill this virus in 2 seconds. Just tell Hillary the virus is going to testify against her.
A question for the theologians here: Does a free market transaction make any activity moral? An activity can be legal and immoral at the same time. What do you say?
“Allowed”? By who’s authority in a free country? I’d rather pay 20x for what I need than face no availability at all.
I think there’s no question that legality and immorality are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
This piggish behavior is the result of children not being taught Christ’s “Golden Rule”: “Do to others as you would have them do to you.” (Matthew 7:12; Luke 6:31)
The 4th Amendment
Yes, but they are also not mutually inclusive. Abortion is legal, but the morality is at best questionable.
It’s called gouging. It’s illegal.
There, feel better now?
China did later studies showing someone without the virus caught it by *riding a bus*, half an hour AFTER someone infected, had got off the bus.
Here in the US, a kid got it by getting an autograph from NBA star Gobert...
So buying food now, keeps you from having to go to the store LATER, when there are lots more infected people running around.
kinda....scary is curfews...restricted number of people in a gathering... Cities have EOs against gun\ammo buying etc...
how the hell did we ever turn the 1000 year Reich into less than 12 years, and ended it in less than 1250 hellish days?
Let me see if I understand what is happening.
First, a retailer made a decision to sell Colvin hand sanitizer at a price agreed upon between them. Then Colvin attempted to attract buyers who would purchase at a price agreed upon between themselves. Then Amazon decided that, despite the agreement between Colvin and his potential buyers, Amazon would not permit the sale to be made. Presumably at some price Amazon might permit the sale. Amazon is free to do this.
However, Amazon's decision has deprived people who "need" the product from receiving it. Colvin will probably find an alternative way to distribute his product. This will make the transactions less efficient and will reward more people in the resulting distribution chain.
I remember when the ammunition shortage caused prices to at least double for many months. Walmart, based on their usual marketing practices, refused to raise their prices. They evidently had contracts at a low price and were determined to keep the shelf price low.
So, did that benefit Walmart's customers? I don't think so. Instead it offered an opportunity for Walmart employees, or people who could stand by all day to benefit from daily deliveries, to profit greatly from Walmart's policy. The typical customer found the shelves bare despite any willingness to pay 50, 70, or 100% higher prices.
I remember a sign saying, "Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part." The point being that encouraging people to "hoard" products so as to profit during a time of greater demand makes products available that otherwise wouldn't be available.
Should the makers of hand sanitizers be expected to increase production at great expense and then suffer losses when the emergency is over? Or should they be allowed to speculate about the extent of the emergency and increase their prices now in order to create more product? If they have to pay overtime pay rates and expedite delivery of materials will there be no mechanism to reward them for doing so?
How about the stock market? Are buyers at low prices today taking advantage of sellers who want to sell at today's lower prices for stocks? Should buying low and selling high be outlawed? Should the government decide that the sellers are wrong and should not be allowed to sell? Who will reimburse the sellers if it turns out they were right and prices go even lower?
A surprisingly great number of Freepers like to use the word "need" to justify interference in the marketplace. Who defines "need". A need to live? A need to have shelter? A need to have transportation? A need to have a job? A need to have an education? Where does it end? I think it ends in Venezuela with somebody like Bernie making the decisions for millions of people. Do Venezuelans need hand sanitizer? I bet they do.
When it comes to loving your neighbor as yourself, how about selling the item you have 17,000 of at a market price for starters?
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