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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] Hello_there@fedia.io 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Remember all the people telling us this wasn't happening?

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember, knowing that they were lying to my face

[–] Hello_there@fedia.io 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just think how Bidens polling would be if he did something about it instead of ignoring it until the major hikes were over

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They’re not over

But you’re right

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 1 points 1 year ago

I don't think this is what they meant by "the new normal".

[–] soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz -3 points 1 year ago
[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is just capitalism working as intended. The fact that these price increases are being sold as some kind of abnormality is some real neolib brain in action. It isn't "greedflation," it's literally the same capitalism we've lived with for centuries.

[–] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

It was on a bit of a speed run for a while there. Things don't normally jump $1-4 in a single leap.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So now what. Will they have to reduce them again? Haha jk jk. Fuck us.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I knew we were screwed when places like Walmart were still "complaining" about covid supply chain shortages well into 2023, despite the fact that some local farmers were selling eggs so cheap that people where trying to figure out what the "catch" was.

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Dude, have egg prices gone back up in the past couple weeks near you all as well? I couldn’t find a dozen for under $5 the other day—and those are like, the pink styrofoam carton white factory farm eggs. Burn it all fuckin down

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Filed in the "No fucking shit" folder.

I think the Australian consumer protection agency released a report saying similar a few months ago already. They basically said the high inflation rate was a result of price gouging and corporate greed.

[–] evan@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

Sue all of the corporations and distribute the I’ll-gotten gains back to us in a surplus check.

[–] Conyak@lemmy.tf 3 points 1 year ago

And they are going to take action to get that money back for citizens, right?