[Tadpole9181]

Extorting an emergency and telling someone they either pay upwards of their entire life savings or die is not acceptable. There cannot be a free market in short term, life-changing moments there's no time or deliberation or competition that capitalism requires to find "balance".

[eviks]

> entire life savings or die is not acceptable

Making stuff up for dramatic effect is also not an acceptable argument.

> there's no time or deliberation or competition that capitalism requires to find "balance".

That's not a requirement, but also there is time and all that- otherwise how did the people manage to use airbnb in the first place if they had no time? And you can deliberate for 5 minutes looking at a very high price and decide that you can temporarily stay in a much smaller place and further away than you wanted/used to. Or maybe move to your friends /relatives instead

[Tadpole9181]

The argument is there should be no balance, I am absolutely allowed to use worst-case. There is a reason it is illegal to price gouge water in emergency situations.

That law, like many, is written in blood.

[eviks]

> The argument is there should be no balance.

No, there is a balance, you've made up an argument

> I am absolutely allowed to use worst-case.

And I'm allowed to call out this faulty rhetoric

> That law, like many, is written in blood

That law, like many, is causing blood. It was the same thing with masks - instead of incentivizing people to drive far away to get masks from places of low demand and move them back to the city with high deficit, the FBI cracked down on gouging grounds, leaving people in cities exposed to the deadly virus without a mask.

[Tadpole9181]

> No, there is a balance, you've made up an argument

Don't fucking gaslight me like I'm illiterate and can't look up three damn messages. You literally said that there should be no controls, ergo no balance between free market capitalism and controlled emergency economy.

Talking with people like you is such a waste of time.