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[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

You think supermarkets were invented by boomers?

[-] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

You admit, then, that food prices are made up to gouge us and have nothing to do with actual scarcity?

[-] dunning_cougar@waveform.social -2 points 1 year ago

All product pricing is a complicated result of the economy. Thankfully scarcity is not a significant factor.

[-] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

If scarcity is not the only factor, the prices are made up and we are being stolen from.

[-] dunning_cougar@waveform.social -3 points 1 year ago

Prior to 1960 the concept was uncommon.

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