You’re right about that.
In California, we see a lot of cultural-based hoarding in Asian-intensive areas. The couple in the below video look well-to-do and they’re not in a large urban area. But they saw a lot of people getting water which triggered them into overbuying water which triggers other people, which triggers other people. It’s more a display of ‘face’ than necessity. We saw this triggered hoarding behavior earlier with masks, too - shopping carts full of nothing but masks (certainly more than they’d need in a lifetime and too expensive to send to China at $70 a pop postage). And now there are no masks to be found. Then notice white girl - 2 small packs of TP, displaying a completely different kind of ‘face’:
https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2020/02/28/solano-county-residents-bracing-for-local-outbreak/
Cultural differences matter.
American snowflakes have had a soft life that could easily lead into a learning curve that they will find too steep to climb that they might be able to handle if they had been raised differently.
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
I’d like to see her cart.