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.
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/