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Supporting @Outdated's evidence... my neighbour's grandfather was an outsider, until another people came to steal their land and kill their men and rape their woman. 80 years ago!
Maybe Ostriches have something similar.....
Yep, that's just not cricket at all!
I didn't hear about that one but it's very typically Aussie, a natural cultural response that no one even has to suggest, it just seems to happen organically. You can't stop us from being ourselves.
Sheldon Cooper - "They were having fun wrong."
I remember some outrage at a few shops exploiting the shortage of toilet paper by sharply rising the price. I mean it's a bad look, but if it inhibits hoarding behaviours then maybe expensive bog roll would have been better than empty shelves and having to improvise !
Funny thing about tariffs, most of the toilet paper used in the US is made in Canada.
Well, I sure hope that spreads and expands. There are vast emergencies, even in housing.
Yeah, wealth inequality creates a positive feedback loop. Expectations get lower and lower, and the companies with a conscience go out of business, while the ruthless ones just get stronger.
That sounds terrifying. I guess once it gets back to the point that people notice that they have Kings again, maybe we'll do something different again.
I think that we have to learn that when we evolved, nobody could get rich. It was not a problem if some people were born with extreme greed. Now, with large scale agriculture, they become a huge problem, living as parasites on nicer people. Lacking a good instinctive defense, we need to realize that we need ironclad, corruption - proof limits on personal wealth rather that the current leaky net of laws and taxes.
Raising prices in response to increased demand is not exploitation. It's how capitalism works and why countries that have embraced capitalism are so successful. Laws that prohibit raising prices during emergencies (falsely called "price gouging") actually harm the communities the laws were intended to protect. For example, when "price gouging" laws prohibit raising the price of fuel during a hurricane warning, those first in line buy more fuel than they need, resulting in others getting nothing and being unable to evacuate, which can literally kill them. Without "price gouging" laws, the price would increase, people would buy less, and everyone would have enough fuel to evacuate. These laws exist because too many people rely on their feelings instead of their brain, which, as is often the case, harms others.I remember some outrage at a few shops exploiting the shortage of toilet paper by sharply rising the price. I mean it's a bad look, but if it inhibits hoarding behaviours then maybe expensive bog roll would have been better than empty shelves and having to improvise !
Rationing is better than just keeping the price low but still leads to similar problems. When stores rationed goods during Covid, people bought the maximum amount of products they didn't want or need (such as hand sanitizer) so they could sell them on eBay for 50 times the price. While rationing food reduced shortages, such as limiting individuals to 1 pack of inexpensive meat or 2 boxes of rice, it made it challenging for larger families to get enough food to feed their family.
Why those things in particular?
I don't think you have counted the effect of capitalist assassinations, wars and sabotage on the socialist economies that have dared to share oil wealth with ordinary citizens.
I'm not into conspiracy theories and am not easily misled by communist/socialist propaganda.
