That brings to mind the old Soviet joke.
A guy walks into a bakery and says to the baker: “Hey how come your bread is 70 kopecks, the baker down the street is selling his bread for 50 kopecks?”
The baker says to him: “Well why don’t buy your bread there?”
The guys says: “He doesn’t have any bread to sell.”
The baker says: “Well when I don’t have any bread to sell I sell it for 50 kopecks too.”