If you want to understand the real story behind skyrocketing prices, you have to look at monopoly power.

When an industry consists of just a handful of massive corporations who can coordinate price hikes, everyone gets shafted.

@rbreich it's also good to remember that the law of supply and demand is just another neoliberal lie. Prices are not negotiated, they're administered.

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2020/08/05/supply-and-demand-deconstructed/

Supply and Demand Deconstructed – Economics from the Top Down

In a new video, Jonathan Nitzan demolishes the neoclassical theory of prices. Here's a summary and some consequences.

Economics from the Top Down