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by ozten 777 days ago
The media needs to report a more realistic inflation metric. Groceries are wildly expensive.
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If we're going that route, the media should also more prominently report the relationship between corporate price-gouging and inflation. Some do, but not prominently[0]. When too few corporations have too much control over the market, the oligopoly can simply extract more from the population, evidently about half of the cause of current inflation [1].

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2023/08/10/how-corpor...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/19/us-inflatio...