CARPE DIEM: Yeah, What’s Wrong With Price Gouging? Nothing!.

Thanks go to Kirk Nelson for forwarding this to me.

I remember when I was road-tripping to my first pastorate and our van broke down in the middle of Nowhere, Oregon.  (Actually I think we were 20 miles past Baker City or something similar.)

We had four to transport and a car to tow.  That was too many to ride in the cab of the tow truck, especially since one was pretty much still a baby and another was a toddler.

So the people we called agreed to rent us a car for a day.  They brought it with the tow truck and then our van replace the vehicle we were renting.

It was a wreck.  It cost us $50 and we had it for less than an hour before we returned it and checked into our hotel room.

I was so thankful someone out in the middle of nowhere had the foresight and motivation to buy the equipment needed and keep it on hand for the occasional stranded person.

I guess I should have condemned him for price-gouging.  Whenever I’m in bad circumstances I should have the right to enslave other people’s property, time and labor.

Yes, that would be the Christian way.  Instead, like mindless bourgeois thralls, we thanked God for the profit motive.