I recently did a little entry on the subject of "price gouging." Essentially, beyond the core reason that it's simply none of your business what anyone charges anyone else for a product or service -- or indeed, your business what someone else is willing to pay -- there are plenty of practical reason why "price gouging" is just hunky dory and I outline some of them. This morning I have this comment, which, if you can get past the gobbledygook ,is advocating for interdicting in situations where "price gouging" has taken place. Economic systems, like religious or political systems, are imaginary constructions meant to help direct human activities toward a certain goal which provides stability and progress. When they are differential by preference to reward certain groups or persons over others, the comfort of complacency has become the overriding ideology that justifies the system, and idolizes it as the authority. Human empowerment is meant to educated (sic) and accumulate sufficient knowledge to transcend that complacency so that "systems" can be used to maintain a value system that works for all, not just for the few. The ability to alter the dynamics and "mix" of conventions is the utility of human...