The mental gymnastics some people will do to justify sociopathy. Money only means anything because of organized force that says it does. Markets have no power without that. These pontificating purveyors of psychopathy would have their positions punctured in an instant without police to back up their pricing.

ah yes, no possible way to limit how much someone can buy of a scarce good in an emergency. only the price.

this is why mother made us pay for cookies, because there was simply no other way to divide them fairly.

I’m going to make myself popular by suggesting we kill people who price-gouge during a hurricane, as well as those who defend them.

If you are a maoist, you can tune out because you already know what I’m going to say. If you’re not, kindly face the wall.

Cool, I’ll go explain to the Plains tribes that their relatives needed to starve because all of their bison would have run out if anybody could get them for free.

They’ll understand.

ummmm if you’re an economist, you already know… the rest of you might just learn a thing or two (doesn’t know a thing or two himself)((isn’t an economist himself))

So many words to invent a hypothetical when they could just look at what’s in front of them

Oof. I hadn’t heard much about John other than he has some good takes regarding software development, but this is awful.