>>17793418
Nah, this shows why its hard to model behaviour. You think the TP thing is nonsense.
Its not.
Normies vaguely stocked up with food when they saw it as a vague immaterial threat. When they realized it was for real, they gathered stuff they thought they'd need for the quarantine.
Most people don't have a ton of TP on hand. Its always on sale, and it takes a lot of room. Furthermore, a TP aisle doesn't have that many units, so a few people taking a few empties them.
From there, randos saw there was none, went to other stores, and started a meme. Look at memebook, people are making forts and other idiocy with TP, nobody can really sell it at a profit.
stocking TP is the real world equivalent of putting corona chan in posts here, people are having fun with the end of the world.
Remember when people thought memento mori shit was a deep philosophical statement about their relationship with death and all that?
It was a meme. People saw the plague, went ah fuck it, and started posting memento chan everywhere for lulz.
Models fail to take into account that people do things for their own amusement.
Furthermore, TP is inexpensive, one can fill their place with it for like 40 bucks.