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Price gouging (i.ibb.co)

submitted 5 months ago by ZeroCool@vger.social to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

What's your argument here? That we should sacrifice in the name of corporate profits?

I personally am not interested in giving up the few luxury food items I buy so that the CEO of Kroger can buy another fucking yacht.

edit: I meant to say I'm not interested in paying more for less so they can keep buying yachts, but did a terrible job of that and ended up saying the opposite.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

When consumers buy less, companies make less money.

There’s no mechanism here where people buying less luxury foods leads to anyone buying yachts. That’s just not a thing in this model and I’m not sure where you got that.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

There’s no mechanism here where people buying less luxury foods leads to anyone buying yachts.

That's... not what I said at all. In fact, the opposite.

edit: You're right, that is what I said. Not what I meant to say though. I 'mistyped'. Hence why it doesn't make sense. Sorry.