No, they increase the price because they KNOW the people will HAVE TO pay it and they see this as an opportunity to dramatically increase their profit.
This ISN’T about market price. This is about seeing disaster victims as a source of dramatically increased income. In a disaster situation people will give you all their money for stuff that 2 weeks ago would have cost next to nothing. That doesn’t mean you should charge it.
You clearly just don’t want to get it. Which is sad. But we’re done now. There’s good reasons why gouging is illegal, and your arguments actually show why. Because gougers are filth. Bye now, hope you never get to find out why your position is vile and disgusting first hand.
“they KNOW the people will HAVE TO pay it”
Is that another way of saying it’s the market price?
“they see thus as an opportunity to dramatically increase their profit”
Yes, because demand has shot up and their supply is worth more than what it was before. And tgrh shouldn’t take advantage of this opportunity because...?
“This ISN’T about market price”
Then why are people willing to pay it? Is the “gouger” holding a gun to their heads? No, if anything the storm is.
“This is about seeing disaster victims as a source of dramatically increased income”
Why are they such a source? Because the market price has gone up, duh. You say you’re not being moralistic and that I brought up good and evil, but there really isn’t any alternate explanation for your condemnation of perfect fly normal market operations but that you hold to some system of morality which I do not. You certainly aren’t making an economic argument here.