Here's a question for all those supposed conservative capitalists out there,

cawacko said:
Uber agreed to not raise prices during a state of emergency. Same concept that's being discussed here, pricing during an emergency
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Except there are other methods of transportation to be had other than Uber. When they raise gas prices, you have absolutely no choice. Similar for plywood at Home Depot, etc. Taxis are plentiful in cities.

Sure...it's similar. Should capitalism be unfettered?
 
Althea said:
Except there are other methods of transportation to be had other than Uber. When they raise gas prices, you have absolutely no choice. Similar for plywood at Home Depot, etc. Taxis are plentiful in cities.

Sure...it's similar. Should capitalism be unfettered?
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We have nothing close to unfettered capitalism so are you looking for an academic argument?
 
archcries said:
no one approves of price gouging at the time of an emergency, however, isn't price gouging actually the invisible hand at work, price following demand, the economy itself dictating the distribution of scarce resources?

If not, then you aren't agreeing to price controls, the Government becoming involved in the economy?
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Leftist morons call it price gouging; those with a brain call it supply and demand. LeftTards stupidly think that price controls are a way to prevent market forces from working. As illustrated by Venezuela's Marxist regime, nothing could be more moronic and further from the truth.

I am wondering; who is FORCING anyone from paying more than they would be willing to pay for anything in this country?
 
archcries said:
Now your attempting to deflect, the question remains, isn't price gouging actually the invisible hand at work, price following demand, the economy itself dictating the distribution of scarce resources?

If you are a conservative, a conservative who echoes the benefits of capitalism, you should be able to answer the question

And by the way, there is no such thing as a "free market"
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You need to look up the word "gouging" brain dead wonder boy. "an act of extortion; swindle. "

Liberals are the most uneducated repugnant dumbfucks on the planet; which explains why they support the Party of the Jackass.
 
MicSlawber said:
Correct. It's analogous to the terrorist freedom fighter adage. One man's gouging is another man's data input on the supply demand curve. Who cares if people will die, raise that prescription price from 50 to 750 per pill! It's the Republican way.
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:legion:
 
SmarterthanFEW said:
price gouging is the inevitable result of people refusing to logically and intelligently plan for emergencies. If you refuse to prepare your family for the necessities after a disaster, you'll pay the price. However, who gives a fuck about home depot charging $4 a bottle for water if they already have 6 cases stocked in their basement? it's why I have 5 full 5 gallon cans of gasoline in my garage, so I don't have to pay $4 a gallon after waiting in line for 2 hours.

if you don't like the price gouging, fix it by stocking up and being prepared.
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Spot on; but it will fall on the deaf and dumb ears of leftist morons who moronically think that Government price controls work.
 
archcries said:
Just attempting to stimulate conversation/exchanges, is the purpose of a forum

Hey, you should be happy, you don't see me posting the "Trump is a dumb ass criminal" or the "Republicans are Nazis" do you?
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BULLSHIT! You're trolling with your predictable idiotic Marxist stupidity.
 
archcries said:
Inelastic is a common economic term, most learned that in high school

And the point hasn't changed, I if you are a true believer in capitalism you then you have to accept price gouging as a reality, plus I noticed you didn't answer the questions on Martin Shkreli
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I am amused that you stupidly think you understand economics. :rofl2:
 
archives said:
no one approves of price gouging at the time of an emergency, however, isn't price gouging actually the invisible hand at work, price following demand, the economy itself dictating the distribution of scarce resources?

If not, then you aren't agreeing to price controls, the Government becoming involved in the economy?
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For Capitalism to Survive, the Race Must Go to the Fastest, Not the Fatherest


Everything rational has its limits. The real self-destruction of Capitalism is in allowing hereditary power. That puts inferior people in superior positions. Not only is Boss, Jr., unfit to take over as owner, all upper management defectives come from the hereditary classes. Familyism is more primitive than tribalism and leads to society being overrun by primitives, as happened before in the Dark Ages. That's why aristocratic academia preaches that there were no Dark Ages.

This subject is suppressed. But even the Cubs' long drought was caused when Wrigley, Jr. (PK) took over ownership soon after the 1945 league championship season. Iacocca, a more or less self-made man, was fired because of the third Ford's jealousy. On and on and on until everything collapses. They'll be the last to feel it, but it won't happen at all if we make them the first.

HeirHeads get in our way, so we must run them over, abolishing their unearned privileges. If we must do it on our own, so must they.
 
Ralph said:
Supply and demand. First let's say, we do not live in a republic with a limited government and there are no laws that regulate raising the prices of goods and services during the state of an emergency. That's point number one concerning your false premise based upon a hypothetical.....that being there are no laws that regulate anything as if a conservative demands no government whatsoever instead of a limited government (as suggested by our founders...as they believed as all conservatives do....government is a necessary evil). Next...there is a difference between no government and limited government.

Now lets address your hypothetical and demonstrate why pure unadulterated capitalism is better than socialism...even through we live in a republic our economy is based upon something other than a totally free market...our economy is based upon crony capitalism at best...yet its still the best economy on earth. Back to capitalism.

Let's take a lesson from Stossel (an out spoken libertarian): Price gouging is a good thing....it allows everyone to know exactly what products and services are in high demand and its only a temporary thing. But the point is, gouging allows everyone to get some of the product or services that are in high demand instead of the first comers that hoard up an oversupply of any product in high demand.

Example. If water begins selling for 50 bucks a case instead of its normal 5, that's an indicator that water is in high demand. By selling at that outrageous price....this gives incentive for the supplier to stay during an emergency and restock in order to get the extra profit instead of simply selling out an moving himself out of harms way if the price is held down by government regulation.....that way only a hand full gets the much needed supply.

Its called supply and demand. And of course if the demand is up...someone will certainly provide the supply at his/her own risk. But...again, once the emergency is over the price will naturally come down because everyone will begin underselling the gouger once the supply routes open up again.

It depends upon just how you look at it. But that's the reality that everyone deals with during a state of emergency. Crying an whining never helps anything.

But...again. Your false premise is based upon a hypothetical that will not happen here in the republic that is the United States of America because our economy is regulated to hell and back and there is no free market that once existed in the US....that's why every economic downturn, every economic crash or instability is due to one thing....BIG BROTHER HAVING HIS NOSE ABOUT A FOOT UP THE PEOPLE'S ASSHOLE. A free economy based upon capitalism corrects itself as demonstrated by the stock market crash of 21.

Never hear of it? Of course you have not...why? Because Big Brother was not allowed to step in and regulate a damn thing. The market correction was almost as severe as the one that caused the GREAT DEPRESSION.....but the market corrected itself when given time....unlike the market during King Roosevelt's reign....the more he regulated the worse the economy became, it lasted for well over a decade with the 2nd WW being the only thing that brought the US out of that great depression.
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Populists will render both economic elitists and social elitists powerless. Quit playing the game that the only alternative to Scrooges and Robber Barons is Communism, especially because of the hidden fact that Communists are Capitalists, Jr. A typical example is that Bill Ayers's father was the CEO of a large corporation. Hereditary classes have no right to exist.
 
Althea said:
Except there are other methods of transportation to be had other than Uber. When they raise gas prices, you have absolutely no choice. Similar for plywood at Home Depot, etc. Taxis are plentiful in cities.

Sure...it's similar. Should capitalism be unfettered?
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Actually you do have choices. You can prepare ahead of time for emergencies.

Or you can live life in a fantasyland thinking nothing will ever go wrong and if it does, others are obligated to bail you out on their nickel.
 
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