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submitted 1 year ago by Mereo@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

French supermarket Carrefour has put stickers on its shelves this week warning shoppers of "shrinkflation" - where packet contents are getting smaller while prices are not.

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[-] match@pawb.social 8 points 1 year ago

Which Adam Smith then follows by saying the craftspeople need to form guilds (unions) in response, which is the only scenario where the invisible hand approach could work

[-] sab@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

The invisible hand was really just mentioned once in relation to the dynamics of trade between states, the whole concept is just taken out of context.

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