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Get the names and locations of these stores and report it. So fucking illegal.
TO REPORT PRICE GOUGING IN TEXAS [X]:
“call the Office of the Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Hotline toll-free at (800) 621-0508 or email [email protected]”
sataniccapitalist reblogged
The inhumanity of capitalism sees people arguing that natural disasters, situations in which people lose everything they have and struggle to stay alive with limited resources, is the “perfect time” for price gouging [the practice of raising prices to astronomical levels to take advantage of increased demand].
In this article, the author argues that places raising the price of water to freaking $100 means that “only those who actually need it will buy it”, allowing the price-gouge to serve as a means of rationing and distribution….not once taking into account those who simply can’t afford such gouges or the simple freaking fact that such barbaric and ruthless economic tactics display the absolute worst that humanity has to offer.
Because at the end of the day, the safety of “the market” is far more important that those who are struggling to survive in the wake of a natural freaking disaster.
The barbaric author then goes to argue in the comments that “sufficiently high prices” will miraculously allow supplies to enter into the storm-ravaged areas…because if enough money is offered, “people will find a way”. He basically argues that high enough prices will lead people to more likely risk their own lives to bring in more goods to profit off of the suffering of others through price-gouging in times of disaster……….and that somehow, this practice makes the world [and market!!] a better place for all.
“rationing by price”, ensuring that only the rich survive or that the poor are forced to choose between dying or giving up everything they have just to get through a disaster.
This is absolute lunacy paraded as a “logical economics” and it’s infuriating.
I’m at least glad that there are several people in the comments section of his article ripping him a new one.
