Maybe he wants to ensure those who love his pens can get them for a reasonable price? There's a democratic quality to waiting. Maximizing profit is only one way to run a business.
What does that supposed to even mean ? There is no virtue in needlessly waiting for something in a line. Assigning virtue to such inefficiency is dangerous.
I am pretty sure people who are buying his pens would find their time lot more valuable (2 years in this case) than more price.
btw, why is this dangerous?
> why is this dangerous?
Economic inefficiencies lead to wastage. In this case people might put themselves on waiting list only to buy them for $150 and then sell it to someone for $500. The democratic virtue here is thrown out of the window and you have needlessly now employed a middleman who adds no real value to the process but as a remedy to the virtue signaling of the manufacturer.
Reminds of all bad things that happened when US government tried to subsidize baby formula.
This is a bit like low cost government subsidized housing in bay area. Joe gets it but then rents to Kumar and continue to live as homeless. Now you have subsidized Kumar. It is dangerous in a sense, it assigns virtue to bad economic sense, creates incentives for needless middleman and prevents goods from going to people who really need it.