Huh? "Pricing is usually the best way to allocate resources,… But … masks are most essential for medical workers. Ordering large supplies at fixed prices is the right policy. The public benefit of a functioning health system far outweighs any harm"https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2020/04/11/many-economists-defend-disaster-profiteers-they-are-wrong …
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It all would be free if we stopped aiming at competition for money as a way of life, and instead focused on collaboration for health.
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Huh? Is this sarcasm?
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In some situations perhaps. However, we should also want to incentivise creation of better solutions by rewarding successful creators.
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Obviously. But in the present situation, everybody and his uncle are already building mask factories, and it won't go much faster if prices increase ever further. We will also sit on a big pile of unused masks and ventilators in a couple months.
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Ummm, FYI a high pass filter (in music) filters out the low frequencies and doesn't restrict the high end whatsoever.
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