Striker@lemmy.worldM to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoThis is way too expensive for a drink.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square135fedilinkarrow-up1544arrow-down129
arrow-up1515arrow-down1imageThis is way too expensive for a drink.lemmy.worldStriker@lemmy.worldM to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square135fedilink
minus-squareCodeName@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up48·1 year agoI’ve cut so many products out of my life in the past few years. They used Covid as an excuse to price gauge and they just never stopped. They’ll keep creeping the price up until sales start to decline then they’ll settle there… for awhile.
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·1 year agoBecause as we all know, the thing that changed during the pandemic was that where before greed wasn’t a thing, it is now! We know greed caused this inflation, because of the correlation between greed varying and the inflation varying. During the year 2020, greed emerged into humanity, and gave us inflation. It makes perfect sense /s
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThey never needed an excuse. All they needed was the lack of competition that we gave them when we forcibly shut down their competitors.
I’ve cut so many products out of my life in the past few years. They used Covid as an excuse to price gauge and they just never stopped. They’ll keep creeping the price up until sales start to decline then they’ll settle there… for awhile.
Greedflation!
Because as we all know, the thing that changed during the pandemic was that where before greed wasn’t a thing, it is now!
We know greed caused this inflation, because of the correlation between greed varying and the inflation varying.
During the year 2020, greed emerged into humanity, and gave us inflation. It makes perfect sense
/s
They never needed an excuse. All they needed was the lack of competition that we gave them when we forcibly shut down their competitors.