re: Price gouging laws predictably lead to shortages

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Does not compute. Are you giving credit to the free market for the compassion of the individual?

Sounds like a sociopathic business owners way of explaining why he didn't need to help

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It computes to normal people with even a modicum of understanding about economics and human behavior. I don't know if you realize this but "the individual" is essentially the entire make up of the free market so I don't know why you wouldn't "give credit to the free market for the compassion of the individual." That's exactly how it works. The "sociopathic business owners" (whoever they are) are effectively controlled by the individual and other business owners as you can see by what's going on in Texas and Louisiana right now.