/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>17800350
>>17801663
even if things do get stupidly irrational and some moron wants to pay $2,000 for a bottle of rubbing alcohol from someone who both you and i might consider a scumbag, why the fuck would you want to step in and stop such a fucking moron from learning his lesson? better to spend $2,000 on a bottle of rubbing alcohol and hate yourself for it now than to regularly spend sums of $15,000 later on in life doing fairly simple things like getting a fucking set of outdoor stairs built or getting a garage door put in by a conniving contractor, all because you never had the opportunity to appreciate how markets work and how one can save money by shopping around, or questioning whether they actually need something, or even considering making something themselves. you're doing a disservice to the naive by trying to shelter them from the reality that they're operating on bad fundamentals.
the people who actually do blatantly and opportunistically scam others will get fucked, and will get what is coming to them; if you, as a government, do not use your capacity for cruelty to hurt or restrict the natural rights of people who charge more than you personally think they should charge for something, then competition will happen—and it will blow the fuck out of the scammers and conmen. otherwise, these scumbags will operate in the shadows, and—because good men tend not to like operating in scenarios where the legal system is against them—will have little in the way of competition to keep them from expressing their scumfuck nature; price gouging, poor-quality goods, FAKE goods, harassment of customers, lacing their goods with drugs or poisons when the customers try to negotiate a better price—all of the possible shades of morally derelict dishonesty.