Surprise!
You can’t — because, it turns out, people enjoy providing goods and services at a profit, and will gleefully and immediately resolve the supply disruption that led to the “gouging”.
This topic is surprisingly robust, for something with so many obvious counter examples in such a wide range of scenarios…
Which is clearly impossible on a platform like HN, which values interesting facts above boring, religious ideology … right?
This is not even remotely an example of “gouging”.
Try again?
No competitors, you say?
Peel back the layers of shielding against you rolling in as a “competitor”, and what will you find?
A big steaming layer of government.
Regulating that only their connected buddies can fleece you - and there’s nothing you can do about it.
You voted for this. For your safety. You want this.