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12 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
So used to be that if there was a gas shortage, prices would rise.

Wondering if we’re too stupid to let that happen now, like when NYC went after price gouging during COVID when prices needed to rise. We’d see demonization of gas stations, etc. Wouldn’t be surprised.
Looks like it’s happening, war on price gouging. The simplest stuff we learned decades ago has been forgotten, everything is democratized, which means run by the most hysterical voices on Twitter. Nice demonstration of how decline works in real time.
Coming from the top, encouraging citizens to become Cheka officers reporting the price system at work.
Did we do this during previous periods of high gas prices? Maybe we did, I genuinely don’t remember. But I suspect not, and this is part of a general trend towards “man on the street” news driven economics.

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