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The horror - horror! - of rich people having more stuff than poor people is not alleviated by preventing prices from rising in times of scarcity - rich people can just pay others to stand in line for them.

Equity of distribution doesn't strike me a particularly good metric for dealing with emergencies anyway since it's easily maximized by not letting anyone have anything, which is essentially what 'gouging' bans achieve.



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