this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2023
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A Boring Dystopia
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Stop calling corporate greed inflation...
Even adjusted for "inflation" they're making record profits for the most part.
They just realized that since a handful of giant corporations control all the major brands, if everyone raises prices no one has other options.
It's fucking price fixing. And neither political party wants to do anything because they get a lot of donations from corporations to pretend there's any other reason for this besides greed.
It’s also because as social security is closer and closer to failing, seniors are extremely reliant on retirement plans that rely on always increasing stock market values.
Stock only go up when profits go up. Everything else be damned.