Reply #30: Excellent points. Perhaps you are right - though It's difficult to know the truth

[Joe Chi Minh]

concerning the price gouging (or not) in such situations because it is in the nature of capitalists to lie through their teeth. As its proponents on here are quick to point out, they feel no moral compunction whatsoever - although they couch it in terms of companies, rather than their good selves. Profits is profits.

Scandinavia's survival as a group of rather successful countries, with the brutal edges of their economic reforms blunted in terms of the population at large, by socially beneficial compensatory measures, is obviously a myth.