Ontario Premier Doug Ford lamented Thursday that grocery store prices are sky high, but nixed the idea of banning so-called surveillance pricing and slammed a pilot project for city-run grocery stores as socialist and “crazy.”
If somebody with too much money pays more for a speeding ticket in Sweden, everyone here would be getting justice boners.
Maybe one person paying more means another person gets to afford it because the average price is the same or higher for the company to be happy with increased profits overall. Yah, yah, companies are never happy… but overall, if line goes up, there might be something to be said for those that can pay bearing the brunt of the profit motive.
It’s a dangerous game to play with commodities. It flies in the face of basic supply and demand. It can create a black market with hoarded things bought at lower prices and resold for a huge profit. Hoarding during the pandemic as well as GPU and Pokemon scalpers should be enough of an example to shut that shit down before it ever happens.
If somebody with too much money pays more for a speeding ticket in Sweden, everyone here would be getting justice boners.
Maybe one person paying more means another person gets to afford it because the average price is the same or higher for the company to be happy with increased profits overall. Yah, yah, companies are never happy… but overall, if line goes up, there might be something to be said for those that can pay bearing the brunt of the profit motive.
That is not how this will work… anyone that has watched capitalism for more than 5 years could tell you that
It’s a dangerous game to play with commodities. It flies in the face of basic supply and demand. It can create a black market with hoarded things bought at lower prices and resold for a huge profit. Hoarding during the pandemic as well as GPU and Pokemon scalpers should be enough of an example to shut that shit down before it ever happens.