Re: Three Body Problem

On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 01:28:11 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/21/2024 10:41 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
...

No Paul, you are wrong here. Any common sense interpretation of that text
makes it obvious that Lynn is right and you are wrong.

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Paul is correct.   A ban on price gouging is _not_ the same as
price controls.
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One might even go so far as suggesting that the inability of the
federal government to enforce the anti-trust laws have increased
the frequency of price gouging.  Particularly in the grocery
industry which has overly consolidated over since 1980.

 
I noted elsewhere that what should have been an unrelated book
reminded me how much of the Federal control was put into place in a
era very much like our own. Anti-trust laws, food content regulation,
associated laws and associated Federal agencies stem from those times.
 
Perhaps this is the first glimmer of what further Federal controls and
even agencies will be added /this/ time around.
 
1%-ers, it seems, never learn.

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Please tell me of any country that put price controls on food that
survived that act as a democracy or a republic.

The USA survived WWII just fine. So did Britain. And others (Canada,
Australia, New Zealand) very likely did as well if they imposed price
controls in the war.

But, as I noted above or elsewhere, the price controls/rationing were
a temporary wartime measure that actually /ended/. And that "hoarders"
were attacked by propaganda and, for all I know, prosecuted if found.
Being temporary and serving a national purpose probably made them more
endurable.

BTW, the number one national seller of food in the USA is Walmart.
Walmart disrupted the grocery industry severely in the 1990s when they
added groceries to all of their stores.  Are you going to accuse Walmart
of price fixing ?  Walmart is where the poor go to shop, they know where
the best deal is.

Or where they can walk to.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"