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Re:Economists who defend disaster profiteers are wrong by hannasanarion on Monday April 13, 2020 @11:33PM (#22862530)
Hoarding isn't the (entire) problem, a bigger issue is the sudden shift in consumption from commercial to consumer. Nobody is pooping in office buildings, schools, or shopping centers anymore, everyone is doing it at home. Producers that uses to sell 50/50 consumer to commercial are now selling 90/10 in favor of consumer and they can't reconfigure their production lines fast enough.

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Re:Economists who defend disaster profiteers are wrong by kortilla on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @01:43AM (#22863057)
And $20/roll would expedite the changeover pretty quickly.
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Re:Economists who defend disaster profiteers are wrong by asdkjh345fd on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @07:48AM (#22864782)
Not if the producers believe that this is temporary and will go back to 50/50 again soon. It isn't worth the cost of making big changes just to have to change back again in a month.
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Re:Economists who defend disaster profiteers are wrong by lukas099 on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @08:51AM (#22865190)
It may incentivize them to invest in the ability to quickly change the ratio.
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Re:Economists who defend disaster profiteers are wrong by Robin_Message on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @09:24AM (#22865597)
For a once every hundred years event? Probably not.
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