THE DEFINITION OF PRICE GOUGING

Price gouging generally means charging excessively high prices for essential goods or services, particularly during emergencies, shortages, or periods of unusually high demand.

In olden times, such practices by greedy merchants would often cause the peasant folk to band together and eat said greedy merchant. But we don't eat the rich anymore. Instead, we give them yachts and government contracts!

And now these greedy merchants have banded together to form "private equity" firms that are making every single thing in the world worse and more expensive! Hooray!

Who Is Responsible for Price Gouging?

Prices of goods rise for many reasons.

Pineapples used to be super rare and valuable in Europe because someone had to carry the damn pineapple on a wooden ship all the way back to you without eating it.

But now prices can be raised on everything for no reason, just to see if people will keep paying fifteen dollars for a Big Mac!

At least whatever extra profit comes from these price increases always goes back to the shareholders! Phew!

You may have heard talk of supply chains and market conditions being blamed for price gouging, and sure! There is definitely some of that going on. But then you'd think prices would decrease once those issues have passed, wouldn't you?

But they never, ever do.

Prices gotta go up! Profits gotta go up! And as long as they both go up forever, we're all gonna be FINE.

A Comedy Sketch About Corporate Greed

From rising prices to record corporate profits, What Is Price Gouging and Who Is Responsible? helps to show how a bunch of greedy assholes always seem to be at the heart of everyone's problems.

It's satire. I guess. Enjoy!