What the wise neighbors gain by driving out the gougers cannot be measured by dollars and cents.
What will they gain? Not emergency supplies. Not a merchant willing to pay extra to maintain stocks. How wise is that?
Sigh.
How do we all rise above the level and the shackles of "enlightened selfishness" being so bewitchingly preached here by some, though not under those precise words comprising the name.
I guess a start, is not to argue on its terms any more.
You know the price of everything and the value of nothing. You pilot your world only on the rudder of "enlightened selfisness". In truth, the merchants who found themselves loved for their humane practices, will start becoming the lookouts for the community in the future. They will watch for far advance signs of possible disasters and bring in more items well before they are needed. Then when they can sell $30,000 rather than $3,000 worth of vital commodity a day, not because they priced gougingly but because they had enough to sell at normal prices, they will. They'll sing all the way to the bank AND everyone will love them.
I'm sure you can find some "carnal wisdom" to contradict this, but frankly I don't care.
I'm sure you can find some "carnal wisdom" to contradict this, but frankly I don't care.
I am taking the quotes out. That's carnal wisdom, with no quotes.