eyegouging

Yup, a lot of policies are dumb and and you can’t tilt all the time. A useful heads up for some I reckon.

Apparently this (the idea that telling the truth is necessarily not libelous) is untrue in some jurisdictions? Or perhaps they fear that they are not 100% correct?

> Editor’s Note: This story is from Orion’s Spring issue, 1997. We are unlocking this archive piece to celebrate the release of The Book of Bugs, on sale now.

It’s wild that we believe that it’s in society’s best interest to keep 25 year old magazine articles or 50 year old books locked up behind copyright so that some random unrelated bozos can make a few bucks.

I think they are suggesting that profit margins should be zero (if not negative)… and in my experience most people taking these kinds of positions would prefer if your takehome pay was just a little bit less than theirs.

So pretty much doubling down on the point: it’s gouging when I say it is.

Usually when people say “price gouging” they are making a moral claim — the price being charged is Wrong — not a technical claim.

So you can’t distinguish it without sharing the same morals as the speaker, and you therefore should “know it when you see it”.