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No really, why are groceries so expensive now?
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dog food is about double what it was in 2020. Say what you will about the cost of energy going up during that time: there's no way to blame ONLY energy costs for that.
It's greed.
100% agree, businesses will charge as much as they can get away with
This isn't surprising. It is basic economics.
I heard somewhere private equity firms are coming for our pets already, buying up tons of local and regional pet hospitals, dog and pet food suppliers, etc. Basically they know kids are increasingly unaffordable and so they need to capitalize on the fact more millennials are staying childless and treating their pet as their child.
That happened a decade ago. You can't find many pet supplies anywhere anymore because one company owns the distributors and the stores -- and they don't give a shit because they're American and Canada is too small of a market to support, so it's left to wither and die.
The same with Veterinary services. They've all be bought up, made into chains, or signed bullshit distribution or service agreements by a single (American) company and now it costs many multiples what it used to for no reason except greed.
I'm so confused anytime someone blames "greed" for price increases.
First of all, corporations aren't people. And therefore, they cannot since, and cannot be greedy. They are inhuman profit maximizing machines. They always have been. Blaming "greed" doesn't make sense because (a) it anthropomorphizes corporations, (b) "greed" has been constant across this time frame.
If greed were to blame for these price increases, then why were prices not rising like this for every other year in living memory? Blaming greed for price increases is like saying a building burned down in a fire because of all the oxygen in the atmosphere. Like... sure? I guess that's true? But what is the takeaway? Being opposed to oxygen?
Back on topic - if you say the problem is greed, what policy proposals do you have to solve this problem? Greed is literally a biblical sin - what is your proposal to ban what is essentially one of the key components of human nature?
Aren't corporations ran by people? Who do you think decides on how a company operates?