Elkins45
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Hoarding is stockpiling more of something than you could ever possibly use, often for irrational reasons. But hoarding isn’t the right term to describe what we’ve been seeing over and over this last decade.Define hoarding!
What we’ve been experiencing is panic buying, where people stockpile something they weren’t otherwise planning on buying out of a fear that it won’t be available then next time they actually want to buy it. This creates a self-fulfilling prophecy as everyone empties the shelves out of a fear of empty shelves.
Soon we’ll be seeing threads about price gouging, which is an entirely different thing. It’s amazing how otherwise hard-right gun owners and capitalists become socialists when it comes to ammo price.