The next corporate spin will be “We should LOWER minimum wage, that’ll definitely bring prices down, trust me bro!”
One more tax break bro, I swear bro just one more tax break. Just one more tax break and we’ll solve the economy I guarantee it bro just one more
Just one more tax break.
Just one more lane.
Just one more fee.
Just one more…
Bro I swear.
They already did the company town where everyone is paid in scrip instead of money. I’m sure they would love to bring it back.
“You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter, don’t you call me 'cause I can’t go
I owe my soul to the company store”
When things are bad and the economy sucks, prices go up. When things are great and the economy is good, prices go up.
Corporate fucking greed has ruined this country, and you can thank the fucking republikkklowns for it.
The USA was founded on capitalist ideals. This is the system working as intended.
The price will be whatever the market will bear. Right now, they’re figuring out exactly what the market will bear. They’ll step back from the line just a little bit then slowly creep up over time to reclaim all the profits.
If you’re old enough to remember, this happened with fuel prices not super long ago. Prices were sent just north of ~ $3/gallon, and there was outrage. The prices dropped back to somewhat normal levels and everything resumed but the prices always kept trending higher and higher, now, we barely even flinch at $3/gal, and often, that’s considered a good price for fuel… At least, it is where I am.
The same people who were outraged by it now seek it out. This isn’t any different. They spiked prices, now sales are falling like a brick. They’ll bring it down to something “more reasonable” in the near future to recover sales, then over the next 5-10 years they slowly jack it back up to the current price and beyond and we will barely even notice.
Exactly. Democrats won’t fix that principle; they may (eventually, maybe, years into the future) raise minimum wages, which would be helpful for a while, but they cannot stop capitalism being capitalism.
And, dependent on capitalist donors just like Republicans, they won’t be able to take radical action against the status quo.
This is what many blame the failure of Biden administration to make economic reforms on - Democrats, too, play under the rule of the market, just less openly than Republicans, which is why they always try to find scapegoats to sabotage the most radical plans even when they take the majority of seats.
That’s not to say you should vote A or B. That’s just to mention that Democrats are not your friends and saviors, and they can only be seen as a lesser evil until people organize, come out on the streets and demand loud and proud what they deserve. They have nothing to lose but shackles.
Brother, free yourself from the partisan bullshit and realize both sides work to favor capitalism. And there are people on both sides that oppose this corporate greed.
I get it, the Republican Party is a fucking shit show right now. But don’t let that fool you into thinking Democrats have your best interest in mind.
Brother, take that both sides bullshit and shove it straight up your ass while reading project 2025.
Guillotine aren’t a sign of good times. They’re a sign of times so bad that violence has become the only viable way of salvaging them in the eyes of the majority. They may be harbingers of good times, but they don’t indicate them.
semantics. you know what I was saying.
dead little girls in coal mines? there are dead little girls in coal mines instead of prices, or the normal dead people of all ages and genders on the streets I have to fucking walk past every day.
I’ve read a times article the other day that claimed it is important for food prices to stay high even though inflation stoped, because otherwise people would stop buying stuff because it might get even cheaper. Yea let me just stop buying groceries for a month.
The entire edifice of Free Market Economics as a Political ideology is exactly that use of recognized and measured effects to justify self-serving measures in different areas were none of that applies.
Just like the observed effects of people delaying the purchasing of big ticket items, luxuries and things which are not immediate needs when prices are going down does not apply to basic needs, so do the quality improvements and price falls in markets with no barriers to entry which are naturally competitive (say teddy bears or soap) do not apply is the majority of markets out there (including some for basic needs such as housing).
Yet the Political Propaganda anchored in Economics is invariably done by using truthful things outside the context were they apply - i.e. lying using what elsewhere would be true. It’s like somebody justifying reducing the maximum speed in a stretch of road by using the Theory Of Relativity to claim that the time dilation at higher speeds would cause all sorts of problems with clocks and aging - true near the speed of light, not true at 50 Mph.
To be fair, if we did raise minimum wage, they’d use it as an excuse to raise prices again. We still need to get higher minimum wage of course, but we also need get much tighter restrictions on corporations, or any financial ground we gain will be lost shortly thereafter under a million excuses to bleed the extra money out of us.
if we get hurt whether we help people or not, shouldn’t we just always help people? we’re gonna get slapped anyway.
I was at a restaurant yesterday that charged seventeen dollars for guacamole.
Omigod.
I gave up on Roblaw’s and started going to the local Polish grocery store. I might not know what all the pickled vegetables are but it’s cheaper and I support someone local.
