Companies do this shit all the time, covid or not. Actually this poses a really important question for people who figure we can make capitalism humane with reforms while still maintaining the market: What do you do about this situation? https://twitter.com/ShaunGalNews/status/1245829203385143296">https://twitter.com/ShaunGalN...
Easy answer would be making this sort of practice illegal. Let& #39;s forego the discussion of how fucking hard it& #39;d be to craft a law with enough teeth to actually make companies do anything but take the fine when they& #39;re caught, the meat of this problem is that they NEED to do this.
Scarcity HAS to be manufactured to make it profitable to run a company that sells, say, milk. If companies can& #39;t do things that artificially create that scarcity they won& #39;t be able to sustain a milk business and we& #39;re still capitalist so that& #39;s how we get milk!