At first my brain started assuming you were just memeing a monologue from Deus Ex, then I realized this was an original comment all original text. How sad is that? Lol
…just without the neat cyberpunk stuff.
And this was the game written on the unbelievable, edgy premise “…where every conspiracy theory is real.” Lol
Edit: lol weird ratio. Okay maybe I was a clumsy communicator there, I meant “How sad is it that my first thought was a Deus Ex monologue perfectly fitting with our current times, but we don’t even have sweet nanotech”.
Also, that game’s premise was trying to be just a little bit dystopianly-ridiculous, and it’s now considered prophetic.
Definitely some greed. One grocery store here charges 50% more than the other just because (imagine: it’s a Kroger owned store). Neither store is a discount or lower-end store either. Ridiculous.
And coincidentally (or no really coincidentally at all), OP’s pic looks like a Kroger owned store too based on the price tag and the inconvenience sticker. Shocker that they’d charge that price 🙄
Like most things, it’s a mix of factors. If there’s a culling there will be less supply which will result in higher prices temporarily. But the few companies that control production are kinda just taking their time in lowering the prices once the supply issues are resolved. So there’s a real issue, but there’s also greed making it worse than it should be.
I don’t think corporate greed is a poor excuse though.
All prices in the UK have gone up by substantial amounts over the last 5 years. While at the same time these massive corporations have recorded record profits.
If the price increases were purely inflation then it would stand to reason that profits wouldn’t have gone up so much. Clearly they’ve used inflation as an excuse to squeeze consumers as much as possible.
I am talking generally here and not specifically about eggs.
Is it truly your belief that corporations were not greedy over the last 15 years, but somehow got really greedy at the same time that there were major supply chain shocks across the planet? Or is it more likely that “corporate greed” is a more enticing answer to a complex economic problem?
If the price increases were purely inflation then it would stand to reason that profits wouldn’t have gone up so much
During inflation, the value of EVERYTHING goes up. Companies pull in more money because money is not worth as much as it was
Oh you’re misunderstanding me. I’m not saying corporations started being greedy over the last 5 years. I’m saying that they turned up the dial as far as they could. They’ve always been greedy.
By greedy I mean they have to extra t value for shareholders. Then you have pensions, UK at least, tied to the stock market making it almost impossible to change the system due to the fact we need to account for the elderly and we refuse to increase taxes by a substantial amount on obscene wealth.
Actual inflation or inflation mixed with greedy price increases?
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Do you have any sources for this? Also the songs that mention it? I’d like to read more about this
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Thanks for all that. I would not bother responding to these guys after an initial comment because I sense they are just being disingenuous.
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At first my brain started assuming you were just memeing a monologue from Deus Ex, then I realized this was
an original commentall original text. How sad is that? Lol…just without the neat cyberpunk stuff.
And this was the game written on the unbelievable, edgy premise “…where every conspiracy theory is real.” Lol
Edit: lol weird ratio. Okay maybe I was a clumsy communicator there, I meant “How sad is it that my first thought was a Deus Ex monologue perfectly fitting with our current times, but we don’t even have sweet nanotech”.
Also, that game’s premise was trying to be just a little bit dystopianly-ridiculous, and it’s now considered prophetic.
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Ah, you got me. 😂
Okay my turn, since I mentioned it. Hahaha
Definitely some greed. One grocery store here charges 50% more than the other just because (imagine: it’s a Kroger owned store). Neither store is a discount or lower-end store either. Ridiculous.
And coincidentally (or no really coincidentally at all), OP’s pic looks like a Kroger owned store too based on the price tag and the inconvenience sticker. Shocker that they’d charge that price 🙄
Why not both?
Indeed!
Yes.
Like most things, it’s a mix of factors. If there’s a culling there will be less supply which will result in higher prices temporarily. But the few companies that control production are kinda just taking their time in lowering the prices once the supply issues are resolved. So there’s a real issue, but there’s also greed making it worse than it should be.
In this case it’s a commodity so that’s actually hard to do.
It’s just inflation. Corporate greed is a poor excuse for price increases
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So it’s your opinion that corporations were not greedy before 2020?
Ok thanks.
I don’t think corporate greed is a poor excuse though.
All prices in the UK have gone up by substantial amounts over the last 5 years. While at the same time these massive corporations have recorded record profits.
If the price increases were purely inflation then it would stand to reason that profits wouldn’t have gone up so much. Clearly they’ve used inflation as an excuse to squeeze consumers as much as possible.
I am talking generally here and not specifically about eggs.
Is it truly your belief that corporations were not greedy over the last 15 years, but somehow got really greedy at the same time that there were major supply chain shocks across the planet? Or is it more likely that “corporate greed” is a more enticing answer to a complex economic problem?
During inflation, the value of EVERYTHING goes up. Companies pull in more money because money is not worth as much as it was
Oh you’re misunderstanding me. I’m not saying corporations started being greedy over the last 5 years. I’m saying that they turned up the dial as far as they could. They’ve always been greedy.
By greedy I mean they have to extra t value for shareholders. Then you have pensions, UK at least, tied to the stock market making it almost impossible to change the system due to the fact we need to account for the elderly and we refuse to increase taxes by a substantial amount on obscene wealth.