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packman

(16,296 posts)
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 07:08 PM Mar 2020

Riddle me this --

I buy a jar of hand wipe stuff - or a roll of toilet paper - and sell it at twice the price. Clearly price gouging

I buy a pharmaceutical company, make a life saving drug, sell it at 10,000 times its cost to make. Capitalism, no problem.

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Riddle me this -- (Original Post) packman Mar 2020 OP
Did you lobby anyone? intrepidity Mar 2020 #1
Only certain people get to price into an inelastic demand curve exboyfil Mar 2020 #2
Even when your research is paid for by the government too Under The Radar Mar 2020 #3

exboyfil

(17,862 posts)
2. Only certain people get to price into an inelastic demand curve
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 07:12 PM
Mar 2020

Some animals or more equal than other animals.

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