Creating more supply is hard. Jacking up the price is easier. Sure, someone will see the opportunity and undercut your inflated price, but you will have made your money by then and there will be a lot of collateral damage in the interim.
But who am I to question the wisdom of the free market…
Rewarding this kind of greed also isn't exactly pushing society in a positive direction, longer term.
> Rewarding this kind of greed also isn't exactly pushing society in a positive direction, longer term.
Call it what you want, but they're the ones making and providing goods we all agree are necessary :) money is the tool our society uses to incentivize more of that behavior.
Bullshit. The owning class doesn't make anything, and the actual workers won't see a cent of that surge pricing.
Ok lol. I see I'm not revolutionary enough.