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Originally Posted by redpoint5
If prices weren't unjustly and immorally required to stay below where the intersection of supply and demand met, there would always be supply, and people would tend to only buy what they needed, not what they could hoard.
For some reason this ape society in which I live firmly believes that hoarders should be rewarded, and commodities should be allocated as inefficiently as possible during crisis.
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Exactly. People and government go after retailers that raise prices, but higher prices discourage hoarding and allow wider distrubution of scarce goods.