• grte@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    Surely linking affordable groceries to communism will make affordable groceries less popular rather than communism more popular.

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    11 months ago

    I mean… Price control is kinda anti-capitalist, he’s not wrong.

    And no I will not vote for Donald Trump.

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      11 months ago

      IDGAF what they call it. Lower the damn prices! Sacrifice a billionaire to the capitalist god or something.

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    11 months ago

    The reason publicly traded companies continually raise prices is the pressure from Wall Street to continually make more money than you did last month, last quarter, last year.

    Say you sell 1,000,000 hamburgers and make a 20% profit on it.

    Unless you make more money next year, selling that same 1,000,000 hamburgers, Wall Street is going to punish you. They don’t care that you’re profitable.

    You either sell more burgers or raise prices.

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      11 months ago

      I should have known, when I read all the comments posted under the story I read about it earlier. Nonetheless, there is the ongoing issue wrt Palestinians and their plight.

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        11 months ago

        there is the ongoing issue wrt Palestinians and their plight.

        which is why we shouldn’t (totally) dump on Oliver, Stein, and West.

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          11 months ago

          Someone elsewhere said Blackrock is writing her economic policy but I’ve not found anything during a brief search, so I can’t verify it. If they send the URL, I’ll post it.

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              11 months ago

              Yes, how dare I allow anyone else who may have sources to post, or sleep? Such a horrible thing. I have the YT by this morning, but being such a horrible person, I have to attend to personal duties, before I can watch it and decide whether or not to post.