Anti-price gougers have been hard at work on social media to expose the supposed moral tragedy of price gouging: greedy and exploitative sellers raising prices of necessary goods to massive heights when consumers need them most. But is it possible that these sellers are performing a valuable market function, and a humanitarian one at that?
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