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kleinbl00  ·  2043 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Three Cheers for Price Gouging During Hurricane Florence

    If enough of us followed the Golden Rule

That right there is the crux of the issue, and where the rubber hits the road on libertarian/not libertarian thinking.

    Prices...also provide an incentive for people to respond to urgent demand,

No, that is. To the libertarian mindset, a market incentive is every bit as good as a social incentive. To everyone else, it's clearly, obviously, and self-demonstrably not.