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by paulddraper 465 days ago
If anything, there is a shortage of eggs (some stores near me have run out), which means prices should be higher not lower.
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Yes, and when toilet paper sold out in the pandemic it should have been priced higher. Yeah it sucks to pay more but it also deters hoarding which was a huge contributor to the problem.
Correct.

And those people who scalped toilet paper and sanitizer....their motivations may be scammy, but they were correcting a market that wasn't correcting itself.

Yeah it would suck for sanitizer to cost 10x as much, but that's the only thing that's going to make people ration it like they should.