• @ClinicallydepressedpoochieOP
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    33 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
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        3 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
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        33 months ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          03 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
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            23 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]
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              03 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
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                23 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.

                  • @Maggoty
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                    13 months ago

                    Okay, on the chance you’re not American, the American Civil War, and slavery.