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piva00
4y ago
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Security is not profitable until a crisis hit, why would a private company in the JIT business world care about the security of a society if it's not profitable until it is? That's exactly how you get price gouging...
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eru
4y ago
Price gouging is exactly what makes security profitable!
That's very similar to how peaker plants work. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaking_power_plant
voakbasda
4y ago
Isn’t price gouging with security called a protection racket?
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