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minus-squareflandish@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoi want them to prove it. just like with covid price hikes, and standard capitalism’s greed, I don’t believe them. at all.
minus-squareIheartcheese@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoYou didn’t believe in covid price hikes?
minus-squaresuperniceperson@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoCompanies reached peak profits during the height of COVID, proving that the price increases were not primarily caused by supply issues. We’ve seen it more recently with egg prices greatly outpacing actual supply shortages. ‘supply and demand’ isn’t what sets a price, and hasn’t been for more than a century. Prices are simply set as high as the market can bear.
minus-squareflandish@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoi believed they’d hike for profit and pretend it was because of covid… yes.
i want them to prove it. just like with covid price hikes, and standard capitalism’s greed, I don’t believe them. at all.
You didn’t believe in covid price hikes?
Companies reached peak profits during the height of COVID, proving that the price increases were not primarily caused by supply issues.
We’ve seen it more recently with egg prices greatly outpacing actual supply shortages.
‘supply and demand’ isn’t what sets a price, and hasn’t been for more than a century. Prices are simply set as high as the market can bear.
i believed they’d hike for profit and pretend it was because of covid… yes.