🧩 BND Motif Index · M593
Price gouging
A seller exploits scarcity or desperation to charge outrageous prices, and the markup itself becomes the scandal.
📜 Plots🗂️ Big business🗂️ Pocketbook
- 3claims filed under it
- 3left shows it came up on
- 1claim retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🪜 rests on 🧩 Corporate exploitation
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Exploiting the poor
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
🐘 right 0
🦗 none of our right shows, so far
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-21 “Roger Marshall's medical practices involve predatory interest rates and charging patients for services.”
🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast 🎙️ The Kyle Kulinski Show 🎙️ Hacks on Tap - 2026-10-21 “Roger Marshall harmed patients by charging high interest and having them arrested over medical bills.”
🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast 🎙️ The Kyle Kulinski Show 🎙️ Hacks on Tap - 2026-10-07 “GameStop is selling used PS5 Pro consoles for over $1,399, which is significantly more than the console's original price.” 🧶 people online
M593 · first seen 2026-10-07 · last 2026-10-23 · what this is · how the index works