Create a need to fulfill it
In order to protect themselves during the COVID-19 pandemic, people are buying disposable surgical/medical face masks. I came across a pile of boxes in a department store today. They were made in China. (mad)
So opportunistic, if not predatory, Chinese are turning a nice profit from selling personal protection against a pandemic that originated in their squalid, barbarous shithole of a country. It seems that the communists have further developed the capitalist ideology of find a need and fill it
into actually creating the need in the first place; and, in doing so, have finally beaten the capitalists at their own game!