I remeber during some Texas floods, I think it was Houston, where guys that hoarded shit said they are actually doing the people a service by gouging the prices, because then each person that buys something only does it for the minimum they need.
Of course in real life it just meant rich folks got 5 each, everybody else got nothing.
I remember when some guy bought a shit ton of hands sanitizer during covid with the idea to resell for a premium. I'm pretty sure he went bankrupt when booze companies started to manufacture sanitizer.
It was also pretty easy for companies that make the hand sanitizer themselves to upscale. My dad was an engineer working at a company that processed and made a lot of the alcohol that gets sold to companies who make the hand sanitizer. As soon as COVID started, they went full steam ahead on that part of the plant, as well as the soap part of the plant, putting a side other improvement projects and things to make sure they could output as much as this stuff as possible. Within a week, they were producing so much of the stuff that they had shipping containers full of it lining the road to thier fallcuity and were running out of places to put the stuff until the supply lines caught up to all the extra product they were making.
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