Scrooge McBath

Today in Contracts, Professor asks class to comment on anti-price gouging laws. Person sitting next to me opines:

"Well let's say I have a family of eight that I need to take care of, but because of the outrageous price mark-ups, I can't get them water. Yet Armen over here is so filthy rich, that he can buy all the water he wants just to take a bath, then yeah, there's something wrong that the state needs to fix."

From then on, the evil, vile alternative that's really no alternative at all was Armen's ability to bathe at the expense of some poor schmuck.