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But if a store owner can adjust the price, why not limit
items ‘one to a customer’?

[from occupied ga]

But if a store owner can adjust the price, why not limit items ‘one to a customer’?

Suppose a customer legitimately needs more than one. Price provides a better determinant as to the actual quantity of something that one may "need" Example bread: One guy is single, another has two kids. Which is better letting the market determine price so that supply matches demand or limiting consumption? This sort of micromismanagement is what caused the Soviet economy to fail.

[khelus]

cc JediJones; SaraJohnson;count-your-change

But if a store owner can adjust the price, why not limit items ‘one to a customer’?

Thanks for your post. Unlike many, you obviously are not confusing normal commerce with a natural disaster.

Reading through the posts on threads re price gauging, you realize how shrewd Marx was in recommending free movement of capital divorced from ethics and patriotism.

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