Re:Economists who defend disaster profiteers are wrong
by michaelmrose on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @05:26AM
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People are actually usually irrational. Predicting how people behave always involves building an elaborate mental model of the exact way that their own model diverges wildly from observable reality. The fact that they are rational by their own model doesn't mean they even kind of are objectively.
The point is not that you desire to be able to buy TP its that you are willing to sacrifice the general well being for your own convenience.
Hoarding of some non emergency items is self limiting and self correcting in a way that doesn't rob the poor of the ability to wipe their asses. It's a problem that doesn't need solving beyond the simple expedient of not allowing one person to buy too much of it to give other buys a chance.
Your solution by contrast is actually more likely to shift whose hoarding it and why then solve the problem.
If your position was apt then surely you can give one example of such a system working?
The point is not that you desire to be able to buy TP its that you are willing to sacrifice the general well being for your own convenience.
Hoarding of some non emergency items is self limiting and self correcting in a way that doesn't rob the poor of the ability to wipe their asses. It's a problem that doesn't need solving beyond the simple expedient of not allowing one person to buy too much of it to give other buys a chance.
Your solution by contrast is actually more likely to shift whose hoarding it and why then solve the problem.
If your position was apt then surely you can give one example of such a system working?