The Law on Gouging and Hoarding

Mar 23, 2020, 3:35 PM

You may profit from superior achievement in seizing opportunities made possible in the commons we call the market. You may not profit from harm that circumvents the market. Ergo the prohibition on gouging(offense) and hoarding(defense).

You can clear inventory (rapidly sell out) at normal rates and prices.

You can limit sales at normal rates and prices.

People owe you the debt regardless of their ability to pay in the moment.

But in times of war, plague, crisis, catastrophe, you may not profit from other’s hardship.

(Reciprocity) Some instinctual immoralities are true.