When I went to the grocery store a week ago, there were a lot of things, just not toilet paper. If the laws against price gouging are causing a problem, why is it so selective?
Microsoft seems to be doing the same, sensible, thing that grocery stores are doing in some cases - try to ration stuff per customer.
People are talking about how this dynamic is playing out on a bigger scale, as states compete for resources in the absence of the federal government coordinating.
> the gov has removed the incentive for the TP-haves to distribute it better towards the TP-have-nots.
Really?
> I have an entire Costco package of toilet paper that will last me months while some poor bastard near me is probably wiping his ass with his hand (or worse...
This is not a reason to you? Some people might not appreciate the tone of this but, you’re seriously lacking morals if it’s not.
There is already plenty of TP in existence in the country for everyone, it’s just poorly distributed because the gov has removed the incentive for the TP-haves to distribute it better towards the TP-have-nots.
Or, more to the point of the article, there is no incentive for someone with a useless side project to give up their Azure instance to someone delivering food or medicine.