How is it a ripoff, when no one is making you buy it?
Exactly, but then again everyone is supposed to sell for what they paid for no matter what. Paid 200k for your house, can’t sell it for more even though it’s worth 400k now. Same principle right.
WOW it's not the same principal at all...........your house goes up in value due to appreciation and inflation over time.
People try to sell primers for $300 due to price gouging because of a supply and demand issue.
not anywhere even close to the same principle !!!!!!!!!!
Yep it is.
By the way my opinion is, the only ones who bitch about prices during a shortage are the ones who got caught short.
Any argument against the price of any consumable, that uses a counter argument that includes the resale of a non-consumable (a house), is an informal fallacy (sometimes referred to as a strawman). I'd also point out that any argument that insists any form of property should be sold for what the seller paid, excludes the idea that anything should, or could, increase in value, regardless of the conditions that are causal to that increase. Supply and demand is not an abstract economic concept. If you buy one can of corn, and a set of conditions arise that makes it near impossible for you to buy
another can, then the degree to which you value that single can of corn in your possession will be vastly different. If someone approaches you because they want your can of corn, your behavior will most certainly be different because you CANNOT avoid knowing (epistemologically speaking) that when you sell or eat that can, you'll be stuck searching for something that's hard to obtain.
One more thing - the claim that you 'should have bought more when you could' is just another informal fallacy that attempts to reconcile the scarcity of something (anything) against its increase in price, with the idea that it is scarce because of something that did not happen (an action you failed to take). An items scarcity is not a product of an action
you did not take. Your lack of possession might be a shortcoming of foresight, sure, but its scarcity in your household is only a mirror of the larger issue. Scarcity is the direct and immediate result of a society (on the whole) deciding that buying power should be directed in a manner
that it was not previously directed, and there's no economic rule that insists that the redirection of buying power must be directed by reason and sanity. Toilet paper?...anyone?
The contradictions buried in these arguments are blindingly absurd. We parade in skivvies and Harley Davidson t-shirts, mangle the daylights out of the National Anthem with Cheeto crumbs in our teeth, and wave the banner of Capitalism on the longest pole we can find. But as soon as something tampers with our tenderloins (emotional equilibrium), bra's get snatched out of shirt sleeves, and the National Anthem gets replaced with with hair pulling and screeching. No wonder politicians have us by the short and curly's.
I can't find primers for a decent price either, and I do complain about it, but I'm perfectly and independently conscious of the fact that they are scarce, and that it's not because of something I DIDN'T DO. I just keep working towards finding them without getting a nice set of bruises ground into my hips.
