[danielvf]

Reminds me of in pre/early revolutionary France, the common/poor fought so hard against allowing for free trade and free pricing on bread, in favor of the existing price controls that had them massively overpaying most of the time and spending the majority of their earnings on bread alone, even in years of plenty.

[littlestymaar]

Do you have any pointers to that story? (I'm French with interest in history and have not heard of it before son I'd like to know more about it!)

[BeFlatXIII]

Just-price economics and its consequences…