thank you, price 'gougers'

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without getting into any details, the main arguement as to why it would be unjust is that it would be usury due to the relative power of bargaining positions.

If you were starving and i offered you some food for all your worldly possessions it would be a fair deal, but there are those who would say that although voluntery it's unjust.

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Would it be more just for me to not trade te food to you at all? What if I'm starving, too? Is it OK then? Why does someone else get to place a cap on how much I can value my property?

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Okay, you are free to price gouge in this situation, and, in another historically well-documented certainty, the poor are free to storm your castle and rape your wife and kill you and take it.

Only those who have property respect the sanctity of property laws. Those who are utterly without, as in this example, tend not to care. And if the governments of the world all took your cavalier attitude towards regulation you'd see a lot more of the rape and pillage mentioned above.

NT