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Re:Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules... by vbezhenar on Sunday March 29, 2020 @06:23PM (#22723329)
Does this regulation applies to the entire supply chain? Otherwise it might become unreasonable to produce some goods at all if component cost raises too much.
Re:Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules... by cosmodisk on Sunday March 29, 2020 @06:55PM (#22723534)
If you are making bread and suddenly price of flour increases by 600%,so you have to increase your prices. Unless you are based in a country run by some delusional autocrat, you'd be fine. If, however,the supply chain is fine, i.e. your toilet paper supplier, however you end up selling it for 500% price because people can't seen to have enough of it- the the laws would apply.
Re:Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules... by loeg on Sunday March 29, 2020 @07:44PM (#22723801)
Unfortunately these "delusional autocrats" run the government of, for example, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, etc. and would absolutely punish such a baker.
Re:Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules... by lalaland1125 on Sunday March 29, 2020 @07:51PM (#22723850)
I highly recommend that you read through the legislation. The legislation explicitly allows prices to increase due to actual increases in costs. The only thing that's banned is increases in price due to increased profit margins.
Re:Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules... by jefftk on Sunday March 29, 2020 @08:33PM (#22724124)
Price gouging rules also keep people from speculatively ramping up production at the stage where it might be needed but you're not sure yet: https://www.jefftk.com/p/price-gouging-and-speculative-costs
Re:Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules... by tracker1 on Monday March 30, 2020 @07:18AM (#22727014)
In this case, they'd be likely to look at the upstream suppliers.
Re:Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules... by selimthegrim on Sunday March 29, 2020 @08:38PM (#22724146)
Do you think Louisiana has Republican governor?
Re:Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules... by azernik on Sunday March 29, 2020 @09:42PM (#22724469)
Yes.

Same with the exceptions to shelter-in-place for the suppliers of essential service providers.

Re:Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules... by loeg on Sunday March 29, 2020 @07:43PM (#22723788)
Yeah. The result of anti-price-gouging laws is that when businesses' operating costs rise, they are forced to stop operating instead of increasing prices.