>>513977656
Profit motive. Large corporations are publicly traded and are geared to make profit. Profit comes from many places, but when you go quarter by quarter needing to make more profit than the last time, you begin to cut back on everything that makes you good to consumers and employees. Convenience, good value, upward mobility, decent benefits, etc to us that is everything, but to them, that's fat to trim and send upwards to their pockets as dividends and CEO payouts.

>>513683167
Very interesting.

>>513571561
Inflation is based on CPI, consumer price index. Corporations found they can keep increasing prices and people would still pay, they keep making record profits.

>>149757775
It was clearly screamed through Cosmo memes "I CAN'T AFFORD GROCERIES, RETARD" and illegals keep food cheaper. Tariffs make things more expensive. All the Trump campaign had to do was promise 90s value meal prices without explaining how they would do that or what made food more expensive to begin with. The voters weren't just uncritical of Trump, they weren't at all curious about any of this.

>>149743558
>can't raise prices without losing business
Historically untrue. Inflation is based on consumer price index, increasing prices. Hey isn't it weird that they keep making record breaking profit as they raise price? It's almost like they have some sort of profit motive that drives that trend.

>>509778367
Pigs get fed. Hogs get slaughtered.