I think we can all agree that prices have risen dramatically in the last few years. While many people blame the current president and the baby’s blood-drinking Democrats, the real reason is corporations. They find they can raise prices and people will still buy things. And don’t get me started on “shrinkflation.”
I always remember Mary Tyler Moore in the opening credits of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” looking at the price on a package of meat, and then throwing it disdainfully into her cart. First, imagine how low we’d think that price is comparable to now. And second, notice that she buys it anyway?
I was recently stunned at a gas station when I glanced at the air machine. Then I looked. Then stared. Then I took a photo.
I go to the Giant Eagle GetGo for free air. That seemed like a vast improvement over the fifty cents we used to have to pay. But somewhere in the intervening time, the price of gas station air quadrupled. Or quintupled; is it $2.00 or $2.50?
There are a few things that can be done about this, like boycotting certain products or stores, or enacting legislation. But no one seems interested in any solution; they’d rather just complain about it or use it as a political talking point.
And we continue to pay the price for that.
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