You have a hotel room you could sell for 100 bucks. Something that YOU didn’t make happen makes everyone in town want to rent that room from you. You could sell it for 300 bucks easily.
I want to hear a non-communist collectivist argument that you should rent it to whoever needs it the most, and should not maximize the profit. Maybe this hotel owner knows that grime and mud about to be tracked in. He knows his linens and towels are about to be destroyed. He knows the guest laundry will get a hammering as guests put flood dirty possessions in the washer. He knows supplies will be hard to come by and he may have to drive a few hundred miles to restock. And YOU come along and just want him to eat all that because “it isn’t FAIR!!!” LOL /s
So he adjusts his price to deal with HIS costs.
For bonus points, what about some news crew scavengers taking up a room that some poor displaced flood victim might have needed.
“To each according to his needs”, Now where did I hear that?
He's a gouger. No question about it. But that means potential customers have a choice: pay what he's asking, or do business somewhere else. And don't whine about everyone else charging the same price. That does nothing more than support my point.