• @ClinicallydepressedpoochieOP
      link
      34 months ago

      Uhm. They control the price of things. They control wages. They control different markets, like the housing market. They control land development and energy. You know, things the economy relies on.

        • @ClinicallydepressedpoochieOP
          link
          4
          edit-2
          4 months ago

          … they sit on the board of the major companies and say, “we need to raise prices.” Or “we need to decrease wages.”

        • @Maggoty
          link
          34 months ago

          They raise the price and refuse wage increases. Are you not familiar with how a corporation works?

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            04 months ago

            Why hadn’t they raised them before? Why don’t they keep raising them until prices are at infinity?

            Why don’t they lower wages to zero, or negative?

            • @Maggoty
              link
              24 months ago

              They didn’t think they could get away with raising prices so far before. And they would pay us nothing if they could. Slavery showed us that.

              • @[email protected]
                link
                fedilink
                04 months ago

                They didn’t think they could get away with raising prices so far before. And they would pay us nothing if they could.

                What does “get away” with it mean? Why can’t they pay us nothing?

                • @Maggoty
                  link
                  24 months ago

                  Because we fought a war over it and made it illegal. And previously it was assumed price increases would drive customers away. But the monopoly power of corporations like Kroger’s had gone further than anyone thought.