nice platitude.
It, however, is useless when there is an actual event that constricts the available supply of a commodity.
But, by all means, keep coming up with them. Maybe you can fill up your gas tank with them.
Well guess what, you do not have a mind beam to control the mind of a population as much as you would dearly wish to. So vendors do have to deal with the law of memory, if they expect to continue to do well after the disaster is gone. There is an unwritten law of disasters in civilized societies, that nobody may exempt themselves from suffering from the burden of helping the whole during same. Those who disregard the same, will pay.
Platitudes, yes; TRUE platitudes. Unlike your worship of Economius as the Chief God.