After a hurricane, water sometimes goes for $100 per bottle. While that seems like price gouging...
At $100 a bottle I'm going to be loading up my SUV with as many water bottles as fit and I'll be driving to the disaster area. I'll take work off, maybe even risk getting fired for that type of payday.
Is it unethical? Some people would say so, I did make tens of thousands off of a disaster. But on the other hand, if people were dying because of a water shortage, I made tens of thousands of dollars saving lives. I probably wouldn't have done that without the financial carrot.
At $100 a bottle I'm going to be loading up my SUV with as many water bottles as fit and I'll be driving to the disaster area. I'll take work off, maybe even risk getting fired for that type of payday.
Is it unethical? Some people would say so, I did make tens of thousands off of a disaster. But on the other hand, if people were dying because of a water shortage, I made tens of thousands of dollars saving lives. I probably wouldn't have done that without the financial carrot.
The free market is a very powerful thing.