This news report manages to display all the typical fallacies about “price gouging”, but check out the comments. There are lots of inspiring words from people who get how the pricing mechanism works and what happens when we try to impose “fairness” at the point of a government gun. I wonder if eBay selling has caused more people to understand the basics of the free market.
Online entrepreneurs get this stuff usually. Obviously the respondents to that article are not a good sampling of the public at large.
I have tried more and more this year to reach out to small businessmen and have had some success. The little guys are very sympathetic to arguments against welfare, redistribution, taxation etc.
If there is one thing worth defending outside of the ideas of LvMI, it is definitely the freedom of the internet at large. No one should hold back from blogging, podcasting, posting, commenting, emailing, chatting etc about these ideas. This is the time, the brief window when the state is behind the curve, and good ideas have a chance to multiply exponentially.
LS, what material do you offer your small businessmen buddies when you reach out to them?