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Yeah, we can all agree scalping is wrong, but that fault is not the government's responsibility to correct. The government is not an ultimate authority. It exists to mediate between people when individually lack the capacity to help themselves, such as in military organization, taking down criminals, and setting standards than don't set themselves*. It is not a government's responsibility to repair every wrong or fulfill every need. We first need to consider the reason it exists to know what is supposed to do.

*(mixed incentives, or bad incentive structure, cause an unsettled or negative effect in the market, like professionals profit more the more need you have, so a negative incentive exists to artificially create at least a perception of need, and this applies to healthcare especially)

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bitjoon 2y ago

Is scalping really wrong? Sounds like a free market allowing for price discovery when the initial seller could not.

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bitjoon 2y ago

Aren’t scalping laws enforced monopoly?

I would make an exception for natural disasters, which is actually gouging not scalping

Be advised, I am not a lawyer nor do I play one on tv 💜

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