This is a good point to emphasize when explaining capitalism to liberals. It does not work how the liberal canon says it does. Monopoly and monopsony are the natural state of capitalism, it is its trajectory in any industry, and the combination of profits that tend to fall and financialization means that, increasingly, capital only searches for monopolies and rent as the way to extract profit. "Competition" lmao, more like jockeying for monopoly and then charging you into oblivion.

Anything else that requires constant growth to survive is accurately recognized as a cancer. I guess at least one benefit of the naked attacks on the working class is that the more people are exposed to it the less likely they are to tolerate it.

Things have gotten way too expensive. We never eat out anymore, used to get takeout twice a week.

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Yep

When you hear talking heads in the news refer to "future price inflation" always remember, its just them telling businesses that its okay to raise prices even when costs haven't changed.

I thought if we made workers poorer then it'd force a more competitive environment! How did this basic core macro-economic principle of neo-liberal economics fail us?!