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Impressive of them to execute a plan piece by piece for 15 years, keeping it secret, sticking through the ups and downs, never giving in. For all that persistent scheming, they deserve the fruits of their malfeasence.
In supermarkets across Europe, inflation is leading to a surge in food theft
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Impressive of them to execute a plan piece by piece for 15 years, keeping it secret, sticking through the ups and downs, never giving in. For all that persistent scheming, they deserve the fruits of their malfeasence.
Time for a non-destructive world-wide robin-hood revolution? That would be great but if it sounds too good to be true...
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#43It’s easy to get away with. Especially with self checkout. Headline should be “human nature driving food theft.”
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Eh, I think you're making a conspiracy out of something that's just banal capitalism.
Inflation likely started like a bank run, except instead of deposits, it was money being directly given to plebs.
This, among other issues likely started the inflation. As you note, this brrrrr machine had been running for over a decade.
Don't ascribe to delusional conspiracy what's easily explained by collective corporate greed.
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#46It's all fun and games until the poor start building guillotines. That's what happens when you push people too far.
Had to start a revolution when the ruling class has ensured that every small town police department is equipped to the teeth with military equipment and everyone is under 24/7 surveillance. The French didn't have this problem in 1789.
Wouldn’t the armories of those small police departments then be where such revolutions would begin springing up, either with or without the support of the small town police?
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#47It was inevitable. Whole chickens now cost €7.99/kg, up from €1.99/kg last year. Eggplants are priced at €3.99/kg, compared to €0.99/kg previously. Even basic apples now cost €2.99/kg, up from €0.99/kg. The cause of this increase is not due to war, but rather it is a result of pure speculation driven by greed.
> Whole chickens now cost €7.99/kg, up from €1.99/kg last year. Where did you buy a whole chicken last year for €1.99/kg?
Every major supermarket in Italy.
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Eh, I think you're making a conspiracy out of something that's just banal capitalism. Inflation likely started like a bank run, except instead of deposits, it was money being directly given to plebs. This, among other issues likely started the inflation. As you note, this brrrrr machine had been running for over a decade. Don't ascribe to delusional conspiracy what's easily explained by collective corporate greed.
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Impressive of them to execute a plan piece by piece for 15 years, keeping it secret, sticking through the ups and downs, never giving in. For all that persistent scheming, they deserve the fruits of their malfeasence.
I didn't say anything about a conspiracy or even forethought. It's simple incentives and power dynamics. Imagine Lagarde or Powell saying "oops, we shouldn't have printed a gazillion billion dollars, after all so please fire me and Paul Krugman and all the other state-aligned Neo-Keynesians and put Peter Schiff in charge to dismantle the ECB/FED and replace it with free market money". Absurd. Much easier to opportunistically try to pivot this into more state control on the back of inflamed public opinion.